Saturday at Up After Dark Festival
Line up:
18:30
Frankie Thompson: Horrible Things
Not a work in progress. No progress will be made. This is a work in regress.
In an experiment that is kind of like Bagpuss except horrible, Frankie Thompson is collecting horrible things.
Things she’s picked out of her ear, found stuck to the bottom of her shoe, retrieved from the back of the sofa and unexpectedly found in a sandwich. She sniffs them, licks them and then puts them into a show.
This is part of her ‘I just need to get this out and see what shape it lands in’ season, around the theme ‘horrible’. At least 70% of the horrible things will have been created in the two days before the show, so please do not come if you’re expecting content, plot and/or structure. Any horrible things that are exactly the flavour she’s looking for will stay, all other horrible things will be recycled responsibly.
If you laugh it’s comedy, if you don’t it’s live art.
20:00
Lara Ricote: i don't know anything yet (WIP)
I’ve done a week of this show in the ed fringe and I think I’m figuring out what it is - it’s got stories and gossip and clowning and bits, I think. It’s my stupidest smartest one yet, I think. This will be the next time I do it since the fringe and id love for you to be there to help me figure things out. If you’d like that, do come along. I am deeply excited about this show, I think. See you there xoxo
From the winner of best newcomer award in 2022 if that’s still relevant
22:00
Lachlan Werner and Laila Woozeer: Pieces
A new musical piece, about the pieces we find and the pieces we leave behind, that will break your heart in… well, you get the idea.
Woozeer (award-winning musician, composer, and author of Not Quite White) and Werner (award-winning ventriloquist, creator of Voices Of Evil and WonderTwunk) take audiences from the dusty stations below to the twinkling lights above as they explore London through soliloquy and song. Pieces is a heartfelt and comedic meditation on soulmates; matchmaking; and axolotls…?
Featuring a brand-new jazz infused piano score and exhilarating arrangements of songs by George Michael, Sabrina Carpenter, Kander and Ebb, Michel Legrand, Richard Hawley and the Muppets.
Let these two virtuosic performers find your missing pieces - and perhaps shake off some of the pieces stuck to you - in this life-affirming, love affirming and (just occasionally) very silly show.
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