Inspired by a lack of opportunity for experimental performance, Taut will bring together artists from all performance disciplines for work-in-progress showings and short performance snippets. Except an eclectic night with work that challenges theatre conventions and ask the audience to reassess what theatre can be.
Featuring performances by:
Serena Braida
Serena will present a selection of persona poems from her current work in progress Family Romance, oscillating between herself here and now (her body, her physical and authorial voice), her childhood self, Anna Anderson (the impostor who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia) and the Anastasias, a group of impostors, wannabes, or simply girls.
Phil Smith
Phil Smith works with words, music, sound, and radio. He is a regular contributor to Short Cuts on BBC Radio 4 and has hosted and produced Jazz Dis-junction on NTS Radio for ten years.
He has also made a number of collaborative projects composed of found photography, voice, piano and field recordings. Phil also experiments with speech-songs, radio collages and poetry, some of which have been presented at international conferences and aired on national radio stations.
Hippolyte Broud
This performance invites the audience to shift their usual listening experience and enter a sonic realm, perpetually haunted by the presence of an old actor, as if he refuses to leave the poem into which he has invested so much of himself. By experiencing each vocal oscillations of the British actor John Gielgud when he performs Christina Rossetti's poem “A Birthday" the auditor delve in the sound layer by layer, until they unveil the story that lies beneath those words.
Lucy Waterhouse
Lucy will be presenting a dance-theatre piece with contemporary dancers, Anna Smith and Petronella Weihahn. It's inspired by a search for 'total feeling' with the dancers and expressionist artwork by women in the 1900s.
This event will also feature audio and video work tbc.
Programmed by Calum Perrin.
Tobi King Bakare and this theatre deserve a shout-out for such a young, diverse audience. There is so much talk about audiences being full of over 60s and why, why can’t theatres get the crowds in to reflect society in general? Well, I’m happy to say that on a rainy Thursday evening, the theatre was completely full.
Caiti Grove on Before I Go in CPT's Spring 2023 season London Theatre Reviews
