Welcoming the Child

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Welcoming the Child – An installation of text and audio based on Hugo Ball’s ‘Simultaneous Nativity Play’ by New Free Theatre.
‘Welcoming the Child’ takes inspiration from Hugo Ball’s surrealist ‘Simultaneous Nativity Play’ in order to think through questions of textuality and performance in relation to the nativity play as a central although not-exactly-canonical feature of the landscape of western theatre.Visitors are welcome daily at any time from 17.00 – 21.00 and also for matinee performances on Sundays from 11.00 – 13.00, until December 23rd. St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9PA.

Ubu Roi, I Boris

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I Boris

Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks’ fourth collaboration is Ubu Roi, I Boris an adaptation of the 1951 Gaberbocchus edition of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi,  illustrated by Franciszka Themerson.  You can catch up with the text so far, featuring, amongst others, Dale Winton, Ant & Dec, Peter Mandleson and William Hague in a bespoke sausage suit at the website.

The collaboration is part of SJ Fowler’s Camarade project and will be performed in some shape or form at the next Camarade event on 9th February at the Rich Mix in London.

Adrian Slatcher reviews The Other Room 36 – Alec Newman, Nata Raha and Seekers of Lice

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Even though the Other Room frequently  features three performers from the more experimental end of the poetry spectrum,
its rare that you can find more than cursory connections between them. On the surface, Alec Newman, Nat Raha and Seekers of Lice (actually a solo artist, called, I think, Anne), hadn’t much in common either but coincidentally all read sequences, and had some element of the improvisational in work that was otherwise very structured.

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Aurelia Lassaque London book launch with Amy Key, SJ Fowler, Jessica Pujol and Nia Davies

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Housmans Radical Booksellers, 5 Caledonian Road,  London, N1 9DX. Thursday, December 13, 7:00pm. A rare chance to hear Occitan poet Aurelia Lassaque read her poems from her new book – Solstice and other poems, translated into English by James Thomas. Featuring guest readings from Martin Solotruk, Amy Key, Jessica Pujol, SJ Fowler, Nia Davies and others tbc. Join Francis Boutle Publishing, Literature Across Frontiers and Maintenant for an evening of poetry at Housman’s radical bookshop, Kings Cross, London.

 

Scott Thurston On Clarinda Mac Low’s 40 Dancers do 40 Dances for the Dancers

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Stepping into the space of St Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery for the first time on Thursday September 13th 2012 for the first of three nights of performance, I realized that I had completely misconceived the production of this piece in my mind’s eye. The usual boundaries between audience and performers were not be drawn as tightly, nor the progression of linear time to be adhered to as stringently as I had expected. When I entered, the performance had already started, with dancers dispersed, improvising, along the risers around the perimeter of the room and moving among the audience. It was intriguing to watch the audience’s reactions to this—ranging from delighted participation to outright denial—and to sense how this intervention formed part of the meaning of the whole.

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