Last time a snail, a sheep and a very tall shepherd all walked into a theatre... it was really gay... and we all had a beautiful time... punchline...
Sorry, that joke is still a work in progress.... and I haven't had time to work on it since last SQUINT.
We started at Trans Takeover and now SQUINT is BACK at CPT and we've been cooking. SQUINT represents an opportunity for exciting, experimental, cutting edge queer artists to share their work with you- our gorgeous audience. That might be theatre, that might be drag, that might be visual arts, that might be high intensity bean counting- whatever it is, it needs you for it to really happen and you don't know you need it yet.
LINEUP-
2nd May
Sweatmother- I WANT TO BE A TV
Expanded cinema performance.
What transactions are required of us to survive in real time under erasure and surveillance? This performance by Sweatmother examines how these conditions impact marginalized people globally, with a particular focus on trans lives. Using AV synthesis and video manipulation, the work translates erasure into sensory and emotional experience.
SWEETFA
Let us gay, I mean pray, ICONoclast is about reckoning with and exploring the huge amount of queer history within Catholicism. It’s about trans saints, women apostles, gay poly monks, Sapphic nuns, activism, solidarity, and the holiness of queerness. In ICONoclast, Sweet FA will put the trans in transubstantiation, the ass in stained glass, and the queerness back into history. What does it mean to be an icon, and whose stories get told and how? Honestly, it’s not written yet but it will probably contain at least some of these, and jokes, live singing, lip syncing and probably partial nudity-it’s a WIP drag show after all.
This show is for all the people who have been told they don’t belong, you are divine.
23rd May
Liv Ello is back!!
Liv Ello is a bad-boy-in-progress.
Join award-winning writer-performer and anarchist clown Liv Ello for this gloriously chaotic new work-in-progress comedy show, fresh from Fringe hits SWARM and BODY SHOW.
In this silly, swaggering work-in-progress, Liv straps on the sunglasses of toxic masculinity and asks: is he a REAL bad boy… or just bad at being a boy?
Through physical comedy, lip-sync, audio-visual mash-up and fever-dream cabaret, Liv builds (and repeatedly drops) a hyper-masculine alter ego – part James Dean, part dodgem-car Lothario, part 13-year-old at a rural Essex fairground trying on knock-off leather jackets of identity.
Blending absurdism with sharp satire, the show wrestles with the sticky collisions between misogyny and trans masculinity, shame and bravado, desire and domination. It’s about punching the glass and realising it’s your own reflection hitting back.
Expect big character comedy, tender chaos and some stupid gags with some tangy aftertaste.
This is a work-in-progress from a Fringe favourite known for “comic genius” (★★★★★ The Guardian), “fiercely poignant and daringly funny” (★★★★★ The List) and “clever and confidently chaotic” (★★★★ The Scotsman).
We hope to see you there, it'll be really weird again promise xx
Curated by Ellis Buckley and presented as SQUINT!
“Keep up the good work producing cutting-edge theatre for everyone in London”
Councillor Jonathan Simpson, 29 January 2018
