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At the Camden Head (in Camden Town) yesterday, Muso’s Guide and Broken Glass Theatre Company put on ‘Beyond the Curve’, an afternoon and evening of poetry, music, theatre and art. Being in the midst of revision, I was a little lame and only made it down there for a few hours, but caught the Poetry and, of course, ‘Scenes From the City’, the piece we’ve all been working so hard on over the last few weeks!
Poetically, the day seemed to go well. I found that my current pre-occupations and the sweltering heat of the upper-room at the Camden Head (it always seems to hit the high 20s no matter what time of year it is) led my mind on certain wanderings during the set, but the pieces I caught were generally excellent. My particular favourite was a poem by Lizzy Dening called ‘Silverfish’. Sadly it’s not available on her website so I can’t give you the quote directly, but her comparison between the little silver creatures that crawl around bathrooms and hot solder spilling out from a tap really captured my imagination. Becky Varley Winter’s ‘Clouds’, and Benjamin Morris’ ‘Clue’ were two other stand outs.
Broken Glass’s exhibition-come-radioplay, I feel, went very well. Vicky and Ben had affixed Ben’s artwork on the walls, with small excerpts from Vicky’s short stories, and also included a free-standing ‘prop’ which used fishing wire to connect inter-related quotes and images from the stories. Once the chairs were removed from the room, the ten-minute projection of the images in time with the recording were performed, once to a rapt audience, pinned around the edge of the room on the floor, and then a second and third time while people wandered around taking in the images in their full glory with the sound in the background. I think it worked really well; the change in the space from the lecture-theatre-style rows of chairs, to the exhibition gallery really was something. The photographs from Broken Glass’s set are available on the website.
Image from ‘Scenes From the City’, (c) Broken Glass Theatre Company 2010.
Scenes From the City
While not revising, I’ve been cropping, photoshopping, syncing, de-noising and tying together some images and audio for a radio play, ‘Scenes From the City’ to be put on on Easter Sunday at the Camden Head, Camden. It’s a series of short stories by Vicky Flood, with drawings by Ben Lambert, is looking really good. It’s going to be part of whole afternoon of stuff, better explained on the Broken Glass website:
An all-day programme of award-winning poetry, theatre, film and music, the day represents a shared ambition to bridge the gap between different types of performance and open up new audiences to an array of diverse talent. The day offers a tantalising taster of emerging acts heading to London fringe venues and festivals in 2010.
If anyone’s free on Easter Sunday then I definitely recommend it!
