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Are You Lonesome Tonight / Guinea Pigs on Trial
ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT? Ellie Stamp
A story becomes a truth by the amount of people who believe in it.
Belief is a choice we make.
I am the secret love child of Elvis.
Are You Lonesome Tonight? is a solo performance based on a true story. Ellie has been working with neuroscientists from Kings College and Cambridge exploring how and why we understand delusional beliefs occur.
This interactive performance explores Ellie's lineage to Elvis Presley. With the help of her audience, visual imagery, music, laughter and game play Ellie examines our understanding of delusion and logic. She invites us to join her in this exploration of identity by using the 9 numbers that fascinated Sir Issac Newton, Pythagoras and Elvis. Are You Lonesome Tonight? provokes the audience to think about the human condition exploring how we define and measure 'madness'.
Are you lonesome tonight? is about our understanding of truth and lies. It's about obsession. It's about the space between delusional and imaginative thought. It examines our relationship to super stardom. It questions ideas about mental health and explores how choice applies to all of the above. Ellie is co-founder and member of StampCollective, associate artists of Theatre Delicatessen.
Are You Lonesome Tonight? will be playing at Summerhall during this summer's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, before embarking on a nation-wide tour. Developed with support from Arts Council England, Theatre Delicatessen and The Yard Theatre.
'This is a clever and witty show that asks 'who are you?' ... Highly recommended'
Marie Kelsall, Wildfire
GUINEA PIGS ON TRIAL Sh!t Theatre
Total Theatre/Arches Brick Award winners 2013 return on drugs.
Sh!t Theatre have pretty good bodies. So naturally they are trying to sell them.
Using spoken work, song, satire and movement, performance art duo Sh!t Theatre follow up their multi-award winning show Job Seekers Anonymous 2013 with Guinea Pigs on Trial.
Pharmaceutical trials such as FLU CAMP are being marketed to jobseekers and students as a way of making money, essentially turning poor people into guinea pigs.
So Sh!t Theatre's Becca and Louise are applying for medical trials for r&d for the show and as a fundraising strategy for their Fringe run. They have signed up for trials for trials for gastro-enteritis, asthma and flu, trials for heroin addiction and botox for bladder problems...
Delving into the murky ethics of big pharmaceutical companies, Sh!t Theatre ask is 'guinea pigging' a good cure for an empty bank account? And what happens when profit takes priority in the creation of medicine?
'you couldn't get a clearer picture of the state we're in' Claire Smith, The Scotsman 2013
'wickedly hilarious' Mary Brennan, The Herald 2013
'Sh!t Theatre became the toast of the 2013 Fringe with their study of life on the margins'
Gareth K Vile, The List
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LocationMarylebone Gardens (View)
35 Marlybone High Street
London W1U 4QA
United Kingdom
Categories
| Minimum Age: 12 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
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