Event

Rachel Mars & Greg Wohead Story #1 Returns (A Zoom Of One's Own)

For the past few years Rachel Mars and Greg Wohead have performed their show Story #1 around the UK.

On Thursday 21st May they are performing a live, online version of the show that can be watched from anywhere in the world.

It's the Zoom performance no one needs, but it's the one we all deserve.

In Story #1 Rachel Mars and Greg Wohead take Pixar's 22 Rules for Storytelling and How Stories Make Us Human, make them fuck each other, kidnap the resulting baby and dance out a prophecy of its future life before its barely opened eyes.

It's a reflective consideration of how and why we construct narrative.

'Imagine a bullfight without the bull: it would be a set of aesthetic manoeuvres, pretty twirls and pirouettes and so on but there'd be no danger. The bull, crucially, brings danger to the party that's what the real is: the tip of the bull's horn.' Tom McCarthy

We promise no less than 100 minutes.
We promise live.
We promise real fictional characters.
We promise a plot.
We promise a surprise twist.
We promise a rupture.
We promise an ending.
We promise a rupture.

'It's horrible. Brilliant, scintillating, guillotine catching the sunlight as it falls dazzling, but also horrible.' Maddy Costa, Exeunt

'Story #1 is like a live grenade thrown at television: a thrilling exploration of truth, fiction and the strange space between.' Jonathan Wakeham, Screenwriter

This is a zoom webinar where you will not be seen or heard by the performers or other audience members.

*This performance contains explicit sexual content and images and is therefore recommended for ages 18+.*

Originally an Ovalhouse seed commission.

gregwohead.com rachelmars.org