Tonight Sandy Grierson Will Lecture, Dance and Box is a lecture presented by an actor playing a character who co-incidentally shares their name. Over the course of the show the character tells the true life story of Arthur Cravan, an idol of the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Read more …
The audience participates in the talk, re-enacting historical moments, operating technical equipment, providing ad-hoc translation, creating origami models and ultimately taking part in a magical theatrical act of transubstantiation that remains fresh, live and wildly inventive with each new performance.
The show went down well with the audience, and yet one cannot help think that it still needs a touch more crafting.
Beyond the bonhomie is a serious treatise on identity and self-definition that finds Grierson acting as both himself and others and treading the tightrope between truth and artifice.
A time for boxing clever
Assembly @ George Square, Edinburgh from Wednesday August 3, 2011, until Sunday August 28, 2011. More info: www.assemblyfestival.com
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