In London all next week with Forced Entertainment
at Artsadmin's Toynbee Studios in the East End, presenting two
performances from the back-catalogue. Its pretty fascinating to be
going back to these, and a rare chance to catch them again (or for the
first time) if anyone's in London. Do come and see.
End of the week is First Night
(2001) - a kind of vaudeville gone-wrong, all rigid smiles, failed
magic and sequins. Its on the very dark side of funny I guess - a nice
reminder of the place we were in before the relatively easy-going
attitude of shows like Bloody Mess (2004) and The World In Pictures (2006). Start of the week goes even further back in time to Dirty Work
(1998) which is very stripped-down minimal, almost virtual theatre or
cinema even, at least in the sense that nothing happens as such,
everything is described/summoned in language. I guess this piece has a
close relation to some of the things that I've been working with in
video - especially the piece Starfucker
in which white text titles appear in sequence on a black screen, each
line an image involving some Hollywood star in the midst of some
unexpected or inexplicable event or scenario.
Tom Cruise on an operating table.
David Soul in drag.
Michelle Pffiefer with her foot raised, just about to place it on a step.
You can read the short programme note I wrote for the re-presentations of First Night and Dirty Workdown here. More on the line-up for the Artsadmin season at Toynbee, booking info etc here. Oh yes. Forced Entertainment now has a myspace page. Don't forget to make the group your friend. Everything is apparently internet now.
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