Happy Christmas LICA fans!!!!!!!!
I hope Santa brought you everything you hoped for, a new public arts discount card maybe? ;)
I've not blogged in a while, because I'm a busy busy busy third year and I feel like I don't have time to do anything except that darn course of mine!
Anyway, two things to blog about, first all, the Naked show as me and my friends have dubbbed it. (Nic Green's Trilogy : Participation) Whilst I'm FAR too soft to do it myself at least three of my friends are taking part and I'll defenitely be there to watch their lovely chubbly (or not so chubbly!) bodies dancing around!
Also, after seeing the video advertising it in the Nuffield I cannot push anyone too much to go and see Retina Dance - Antipode. These guys look seriously AMAZING. There's one part where one of them does a crazy backwards roll into standing and it looks humanly impossible! Go to the foyer and watch it and I'm sure you'll buy tickets, looks amazing!
Also, Proto-type are back, YAAAY! We all love proto-type! There's loads of pictures from the rehearsals of the show they're coming with on their facebook page.
Anyways, Hopefully see you all in the bar before Retina Dance. WELL EXCITING!!!!
Lizzi xxxxxx
Sunday, 27 December 2009
Monday, 30 November 2009
Calling local women!
Calling women of all ages, shapes, sizes, professions, abilities ... athletic, curvy, short, tall ... we want you all!
We need the help of up to 50 local women for Nic Green's critically acclaimed 'Trilogy' performance piece.
Read The Guardian's 5 star review here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/aug/13/trilogy-edinburgh-review
More details on the Lancaster performance can be found at The Nuffield Theatre's web-site here. Or you can visit Nic Green's web-site and find out more about her...
To get involved contact Alice on 01524 592994 or email her at a.e.booth@lancaster.ac.uk
We need the help of up to 50 local women for Nic Green's critically acclaimed 'Trilogy' performance piece.
Read The Guardian's 5 star review here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/aug/13/trilogy-edinburgh-review
More details on the Lancaster performance can be found at The Nuffield Theatre's web-site here. Or you can visit Nic Green's web-site and find out more about her...
To get involved contact Alice on 01524 592994 or email her at a.e.booth@lancaster.ac.uk
Saturday, 14 November 2009
High on the hill was a lonely spymonkey...
Monday saw the opening of the new exhibition, 'Looking Aside' in the Peter Scott gallery, featuring an oversized deck of tarot cards made by several artists around the world, some a little cheekier than others, and an ongoing photographic project documenting various Empty Stages, by Forced Entertainment's Tim Etchells and Hugo Glendinning, and more! It's definitely worth a look, I was busy serving free bubbly so I will be going back to check it out again - until the 11th December.
After that excitement The Nuffield hosted A Family double bill - starting with Michael Pinchbeck and his ma and pa's 'The Post Show Party Show', a piece exploring his parent's first meeting at an after show party for their amateur production of The Sound of Music, where his mum was a nun and his dad was a Nazi. Obviously. The soundtrack to the show was the soundtrack to the musical, and each song was a scene, with Michael and his dad playing themselves and each other at various times of their lives.
This piece was fairly poignant, as at the party, a man called Arthur had been playing the guitar, when he suddenly collapsed, and later died. This cut the party short but brought Michael's parents together, so Michael mentioned that if Arthur hadn't died, he himself wouldn't have been born.
I enjoyed this play and 'the songs we wrote backstage' - 'Ill Advice' made more sense than 'Eidelweiss' ever did let's be honest!! ;) and hearing High on the Hill in the Nuffield was a great moment, what a tune! However, I was absolutely gutted for Vivian, Michael's mother. She just sat and operated the lighting board, and said a few words once, I would have liked to see her with more of a role, but maybe playing a singing nun all those years ago was enough limelight for Vivian!
The next piece was 'Where we live and what we live for' by Kings of England's Simon Bowes and his parents. Again I'm feeling the mother was a bit left out, she put things up on the projector. This performance was possibly too personal to the performers to connect with the audience, but maybe that's what they were going for... it wasn't my thing but I admire them for attempting to bring their story to life - of how Simon's dad lost his memory after a bicycle accident.
Next up at the Nuffield will be Quarantine's 'Make-believe' on November 24th but next week the first year theatre students present the show they have been working on this term.
Last week I was lucky enough to get involved in Spymonkey's performances of 'Moby Dick' at the Dukes Theatre in town. This absolutely hilarious show was a mistelling of Melville's novel, and I did not meet anyone who didn't absolutely love it! My role was part of a choir at the end, we sang Bright Eyes (Watership Down) wearing little white sailor hats and red scarves, carrying candles and being generally very earnest and Julie Andrews style... obviously this generated much laughter from the audience (except on one night when a few people were genuinely emotionally moved!) I loved being a part of this, I really admire Spymonkey as a company, and getting to know the other women involved was good fun. But I don't think I will ever see Moby Dick, or Watership Down, or sailors, in the same way again!!
So if I hear of anything exciting coming up at the Dukes I will post on here or the facebook site, it's worth checking out if you have the chance.
NUFF SAID!
Katie x
After that excitement The Nuffield hosted A Family double bill - starting with Michael Pinchbeck and his ma and pa's 'The Post Show Party Show', a piece exploring his parent's first meeting at an after show party for their amateur production of The Sound of Music, where his mum was a nun and his dad was a Nazi. Obviously. The soundtrack to the show was the soundtrack to the musical, and each song was a scene, with Michael and his dad playing themselves and each other at various times of their lives.
This piece was fairly poignant, as at the party, a man called Arthur had been playing the guitar, when he suddenly collapsed, and later died. This cut the party short but brought Michael's parents together, so Michael mentioned that if Arthur hadn't died, he himself wouldn't have been born.
I enjoyed this play and 'the songs we wrote backstage' - 'Ill Advice' made more sense than 'Eidelweiss' ever did let's be honest!! ;) and hearing High on the Hill in the Nuffield was a great moment, what a tune! However, I was absolutely gutted for Vivian, Michael's mother. She just sat and operated the lighting board, and said a few words once, I would have liked to see her with more of a role, but maybe playing a singing nun all those years ago was enough limelight for Vivian!
The next piece was 'Where we live and what we live for' by Kings of England's Simon Bowes and his parents. Again I'm feeling the mother was a bit left out, she put things up on the projector. This performance was possibly too personal to the performers to connect with the audience, but maybe that's what they were going for... it wasn't my thing but I admire them for attempting to bring their story to life - of how Simon's dad lost his memory after a bicycle accident.
Next up at the Nuffield will be Quarantine's 'Make-believe' on November 24th but next week the first year theatre students present the show they have been working on this term.
Last week I was lucky enough to get involved in Spymonkey's performances of 'Moby Dick' at the Dukes Theatre in town. This absolutely hilarious show was a mistelling of Melville's novel, and I did not meet anyone who didn't absolutely love it! My role was part of a choir at the end, we sang Bright Eyes (Watership Down) wearing little white sailor hats and red scarves, carrying candles and being generally very earnest and Julie Andrews style... obviously this generated much laughter from the audience (except on one night when a few people were genuinely emotionally moved!) I loved being a part of this, I really admire Spymonkey as a company, and getting to know the other women involved was good fun. But I don't think I will ever see Moby Dick, or Watership Down, or sailors, in the same way again!!
So if I hear of anything exciting coming up at the Dukes I will post on here or the facebook site, it's worth checking out if you have the chance.
NUFF SAID!
Katie x
Friday, 30 October 2009
Back the Electric Palace
What a great evening of live music and silent films! It was great to bring together two styles of 'art' and blend them together in front of a very diverse audience. In essence the evening was split into two parts, the first part was music performed by Psappha conducted by Nicholas Kok and the second part was a collection of 5 short American films from the beginning of the last century:
(from the programme)
'The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra music by Larry Goves. A beautifully inventive fantasy of Orwellian dystopia in the early Hollywood star system with an uncanny contemporary resonance'
'The Thieving Hand, music by Sasha Siem, Socio - political satire brilliantly realised as slapstick comedy in the tale of a armed beggar who acquires a kleptomaniac limb'
'The Teddy Bears music improvised by Psappha. An enigmatic and bizzare reinvention of the Goldilocks fairytale inspired by a Teddy Roosevelt anecdote'
'The Bridge music by Tim Wright. A brilliantly directed fable of wartime exploring the sophisticated dramatic potential of silent film'
'The Musketeers of Pig Alley music by Gabriel Prokofiev. Probably the first ever film about organised crime by the godfather of narrative cinema, heavily influential on Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas and Gangs of New York'
I loved the last 2 in particular because of the immense power of silent film which is realised in the films, particularly the 'The Bridge' where a Spy is hanged off a bridge but then escapes only to realise that it was a dream and was hung, the fantastic acting, the dream - like sequences and edge of your seat tension made it for me the best picture of the evening!
Fantastic!
Have a nice weekend!
Marcus
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Breaking away from The Nuffield
Hi! Even though I had the idea for this blog a few weeks ago, I haven't got round to writing on it myself until now! Well, I've been busy to be fair! I'm Katie and I'm one of the student ambassadors for the Nuffield Theatre and LICA Public Arts in general. As a second year theatre studies student, the Nuffield has a very special place in my heart and I am very enthusiastic about the line up of shows this term and have already seen some awesome stuff especially 'Tough time, nice time' by Ridiculusmus last night. I was also fortunate enough to meet the two performers earlier in the day and got a different perspective on the two naked Germans in the bath!
So here is my little write up about some of the recent Nuff Stuff!
We’re only just beginning an exciting year at the Nuffield theatre but already it has presented three productions which were not actually in the Nuffield! This is an unusual venture, with the aim of spreading the arts around the campus and town.
The Soldier’s Song by Quarantine
In particular a recent piece that aimed to stretch out across campus, was The Soldier’s Song by Manchester based company Quarantine. This piece involved a touring karaoke booth, in the Management School for two days and then in town for two days, where anyone could step in alone, in pairs or threes, and choose a song to sing from a list. But this was not ordinary karaoke. The audience were accompanying a currently serving soldier to their favourite karaoke track. As a massive karaoke enthusiast I’m personally gutted I didn’t get chance to go and see this, but the response was really good – the audience enjoyed the novelty of the experience and also had the chance to think about what it all meant. Maybe it showed soldiers in a different light to the way we see them in the news. Maybe they felt more of a connection to the armed forces than they had previously. Something that some of my friends said was that it might work better with a live video feed of the soldiers singing, to feel more of a connection. Probably true, but I would have thought that currently serving soldiers are fairly busy and can’t really have karaoke video conferences with us lot whenever they get the urge!
The booth was in the Management school for 2 days and in town for 2 days.
Quarantine will be presenting their next show ‘Make’believe’ on the 24th and 25th November this year at the Nuffield.
Ringside by Mem Morrison
I recently took part in this show at the town hall, Mem’s personal piece about Turkish Cypriot family weddings, and feeling the pressure to get married.
Taking part in workshops for the week leading up to the performances with Mem and my fellow ‘brides’ was time consuming but a good laugh as we all made friends and worked together to bring the show, which has previously taken place in London and Edinburgh, to life in Lancaster.
The feeling of the show aimed to recreate a real wedding, with tables set with white tablecloths and the audience, invited in as wedding guests, given a red carnation pinned to them and asked to take part in a family photograph. Once seated they put on headsets through which they would listen to all the sounds of the performance – pre-recorded and some from a live microphone on Mem’s tie.
The role of the local women playing brides was to set up the idea of Mem’s fantasy wedding, an illusion was created to suggest that we could just have been in his imagination. We all wore black and white wedding outfits with high heels – which we regretted many times! We set the wedding tables with plates, glasses and flowers, which had all been screen-printed on white boxes.
There was a scene where all the women opened the flower boxes and took out big white plastic sheets, which we had about 2 minutes to fashion wedding dressings and veils out of, while dancing! The rehearsals for this were always amusing, and our dresses came out totally different every time! Luckily, on the performances, they held together but our next job was to get an audience member to slow dance with us. The idea was to completely ignore them and make them feel uncomfortable, which makes you feel bad enough, but on the second night my partner decided to have a chat with me and tried to make me smile at him, coming out with lines like ‘Do you come here often?’. Of course I stayed professional… although I was desperate to laugh!
Although there were funny and lighthearted moments, the piece confronted some serious issues about Turkish weddings and about Mem’s feelings, but the balance between these things made the piece work well.
The audience response was really positive, and people who came to the show enjoyed the feeling of being waited on!
I’m glad I took part although I’d have loved to see the show from the audience’s perspective. It was a good experience to put on my CV although it wasn’t so good for my feet!!
The Future of Death by A2
Last weekend I went to see the A2 Company present their production ‘The Future of Death’, at the Storey Gallery in Lancaster. This piece tackled the idea of death and burials in a very sensitive way. It was aesthetically exactly what I expected, local people walking out silently and burying themselves and each other in earth, although to be honest I didn’t think I would enjoy it as much as I did. I liked watching the people and thinking about their individual stories and different relationships that were suggested. There were no words in the piece until the end, where questions were directed at the audience, such as ‘when does the beginning suddenly appear?’ and ‘how much does a medium sized headstone cost?’ getting the audience to have a think about death and try to answer the questions for themselves. I found it very relaxing and although it’s not the sort of thing I would go out of my way to see, I could see how it might give people comfort and feel more connected rather than all alone with the idea of death. I would have taken part in this show if I could but I was busy with Ringside – I could have swapped the high heels for covering myself in dirt!
Nuff' Said!
Katie x
So here is my little write up about some of the recent Nuff Stuff!
We’re only just beginning an exciting year at the Nuffield theatre but already it has presented three productions which were not actually in the Nuffield! This is an unusual venture, with the aim of spreading the arts around the campus and town.
The Soldier’s Song by Quarantine
In particular a recent piece that aimed to stretch out across campus, was The Soldier’s Song by Manchester based company Quarantine. This piece involved a touring karaoke booth, in the Management School for two days and then in town for two days, where anyone could step in alone, in pairs or threes, and choose a song to sing from a list. But this was not ordinary karaoke. The audience were accompanying a currently serving soldier to their favourite karaoke track. As a massive karaoke enthusiast I’m personally gutted I didn’t get chance to go and see this, but the response was really good – the audience enjoyed the novelty of the experience and also had the chance to think about what it all meant. Maybe it showed soldiers in a different light to the way we see them in the news. Maybe they felt more of a connection to the armed forces than they had previously. Something that some of my friends said was that it might work better with a live video feed of the soldiers singing, to feel more of a connection. Probably true, but I would have thought that currently serving soldiers are fairly busy and can’t really have karaoke video conferences with us lot whenever they get the urge!
The booth was in the Management school for 2 days and in town for 2 days.
Quarantine will be presenting their next show ‘Make’believe’ on the 24th and 25th November this year at the Nuffield.
Ringside by Mem Morrison
I recently took part in this show at the town hall, Mem’s personal piece about Turkish Cypriot family weddings, and feeling the pressure to get married.
Taking part in workshops for the week leading up to the performances with Mem and my fellow ‘brides’ was time consuming but a good laugh as we all made friends and worked together to bring the show, which has previously taken place in London and Edinburgh, to life in Lancaster.
The feeling of the show aimed to recreate a real wedding, with tables set with white tablecloths and the audience, invited in as wedding guests, given a red carnation pinned to them and asked to take part in a family photograph. Once seated they put on headsets through which they would listen to all the sounds of the performance – pre-recorded and some from a live microphone on Mem’s tie.
The role of the local women playing brides was to set up the idea of Mem’s fantasy wedding, an illusion was created to suggest that we could just have been in his imagination. We all wore black and white wedding outfits with high heels – which we regretted many times! We set the wedding tables with plates, glasses and flowers, which had all been screen-printed on white boxes.
There was a scene where all the women opened the flower boxes and took out big white plastic sheets, which we had about 2 minutes to fashion wedding dressings and veils out of, while dancing! The rehearsals for this were always amusing, and our dresses came out totally different every time! Luckily, on the performances, they held together but our next job was to get an audience member to slow dance with us. The idea was to completely ignore them and make them feel uncomfortable, which makes you feel bad enough, but on the second night my partner decided to have a chat with me and tried to make me smile at him, coming out with lines like ‘Do you come here often?’. Of course I stayed professional… although I was desperate to laugh!
Although there were funny and lighthearted moments, the piece confronted some serious issues about Turkish weddings and about Mem’s feelings, but the balance between these things made the piece work well.
The audience response was really positive, and people who came to the show enjoyed the feeling of being waited on!
I’m glad I took part although I’d have loved to see the show from the audience’s perspective. It was a good experience to put on my CV although it wasn’t so good for my feet!!
The Future of Death by A2
Last weekend I went to see the A2 Company present their production ‘The Future of Death’, at the Storey Gallery in Lancaster. This piece tackled the idea of death and burials in a very sensitive way. It was aesthetically exactly what I expected, local people walking out silently and burying themselves and each other in earth, although to be honest I didn’t think I would enjoy it as much as I did. I liked watching the people and thinking about their individual stories and different relationships that were suggested. There were no words in the piece until the end, where questions were directed at the audience, such as ‘when does the beginning suddenly appear?’ and ‘how much does a medium sized headstone cost?’ getting the audience to have a think about death and try to answer the questions for themselves. I found it very relaxing and although it’s not the sort of thing I would go out of my way to see, I could see how it might give people comfort and feel more connected rather than all alone with the idea of death. I would have taken part in this show if I could but I was busy with Ringside – I could have swapped the high heels for covering myself in dirt!
Nuff' Said!
Katie x
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Never has a bath been talked about so much after a show!
I had the great privilege of seeing Ridiculusmus tonight and it was a fantastic performance, really enjoyed.
Very much the style of A2: Future of Death at the Storey on Friday, the piece centered around 2 German men sat in a bath tub who recounter stories of celebrities, sex, drugs and society at large. To me it felt more though like a double act who's tales and punchlines made the piece very enjoyable and although they didn't move from the bath tub at all during the 70 minute piece it was still enjoyable to watch and as Lizzi said the 'rave in a bath' was a joyous moment of instant dance and lighting which gave a great interlude into the very fast paced dialogue which was throughout.
Go and see it if you can, check their tour dates!
I'm seeing 'Back to the Electric Palace' on Thursday so hopefully see a few of you there!
Marcus
Monday, 26 October 2009
Tough Time, Nice Time
Amazing!!!
Absolutely loved it tonight and from everyone elses reaction in the audience I guess they did too.
Never have I listened so intently for an hour or so to two men in a bath tub talking complete rubbish but interesting rubbish!
I've come away wishing I remembered the whole script - which by the way is for sale at the show and if I had the £8.99 on me to buy it, I would have! I can't believe they remember so much dialogue that just seems to effortlessly float into their head and out of their mouths.
Go and see it tomorrow! Its very very very funny, but go in with an open mind. Don't be offended easily. Its nothing too personal but it could offend some people, but its obvious its all meant to be taken with a pinch of salt!
I took someone who's never been interested in contemporary performance before and he loved it!
Even the best reviews its had do not do it justice.
Warning spoiler: Raving in a bathtub with flashing lights - epic!
Just booked for Tim Crouch's England too today. Excited for that, his piece last year was brill!
Also today in the 'Making Time' garden they were just watching the soil, I was intrigued but late for a lecture, I want to know what they were staring at!!
See you soon! Lizzi
Sunday, 25 October 2009
Just Thought I'd introduce myself as I'll be one of the regular bloggers here on the Public Arts blog! My name is Lizzi and I'm a third year Theatre Student and also a public arts ambassador hence the blogging!
How amazing is this years Nuffield Theatre programme? I must say, the past two years I've thought the programme could do better, but this year, hats off to the programmers it really is good!
Very excited for Ridiculusmus, (Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th October) surely something with a tag line of "You are funny. Everyone is funny, some choose to use this gift, some haven't the will, and others think it beneath them and choose not to. " HAS to be funny!
See you all at a Nuff show soon!
Lizzi
A New Way to spend a Friday Night!
Following on Oliver Bray's performance on Wednesday, I saw A2: The Future of Death at the Storey Institute on Friday Night, which for me was one of the groundbreaking pieces of the Public Arts season 09/10.
As a student of LICA (Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts) I am always intrigued by pieces of art / performance that cross boundaries and 'The Future of Death' certainly did that! The show started a bit later than planned due to an accident on the A6 during the rush hour, but it didn't dampen the experience. In essence the piece was the final section of a 10 workshop between the company and 40 local participants exploring life and death and this came across really nicely in the piece. Each participant came into the space and either covered themselves in soil or covered someone else (normally the person before them) in soil, As the piece went on the framing of the piece and the way that each participant sought to represent their feelings in a different way was fascinating to watch. The construction of the images of people lying next to or joining others was beautiful and although their was no speech from any people in 'the performance' to use a very worn cliche a picture did speak a 1,000 words!.
For me though the most interesting thing was the juxtaposition between forms, you couldn't really give the piece justice to say it was just a performance, but incorporating elements from live art, and devised performance played out in an art gallery was the perfect blend and made for a really nice performance. As I was leaving the space, I couldn't help but stand and admire the final images of the participants all layed out on the floor, a lovely image to finish the piece.
Well done to all the participants!
Marcus
As a student of LICA (Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts) I am always intrigued by pieces of art / performance that cross boundaries and 'The Future of Death' certainly did that! The show started a bit later than planned due to an accident on the A6 during the rush hour, but it didn't dampen the experience. In essence the piece was the final section of a 10 workshop between the company and 40 local participants exploring life and death and this came across really nicely in the piece. Each participant came into the space and either covered themselves in soil or covered someone else (normally the person before them) in soil, As the piece went on the framing of the piece and the way that each participant sought to represent their feelings in a different way was fascinating to watch. The construction of the images of people lying next to or joining others was beautiful and although their was no speech from any people in 'the performance' to use a very worn cliche a picture did speak a 1,000 words!.
For me though the most interesting thing was the juxtaposition between forms, you couldn't really give the piece justice to say it was just a performance, but incorporating elements from live art, and devised performance played out in an art gallery was the perfect blend and made for a really nice performance. As I was leaving the space, I couldn't help but stand and admire the final images of the participants all layed out on the floor, a lovely image to finish the piece.
Well done to all the participants!
Marcus
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Making Time Launch
12 Noon, on Wednesday 21st October and on a fitting Autumnal day we await for Jonathan Raisin and Elizabeth Willow to enter the fenced off garden outside the Peter Scott Gallery.
This marked the start of the year long 'Making Time' performance project devised by the Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster to explore the nature of time. Staff and students from LICA arrived for the launch of the project whilst some bemused students with their pasties and baguettes strolled over to see what we were all looking at.
We watched Jonathan and Elizabeth as they stood outside the rusting white gates to the garden - what was to happen? Nothing was said by the artists as they stood patiently outside the gates. We all looked at one another wondering how the project was about to begin and then suddenly an old fashioned alarm clock rang its shrill bell, from within the enclosed garden, and the artists entered the garden for the first time.
Their first task was to identify and locate which direction the garden faced and mark the points of the compass on the wall. The centre of the garden was then located with the help of some volunteers before the white alarm clock was buried. The audience were then offered some rather lovely chocolate biscuits by Jonathan a very civilised
way to start a year long project. After all we have 12 months, 365 days before the completion of the performance project.What will the garden grow? Will the soil be fertile enough and get enough light? Will we all be experts in gardening in a years time? Only time will tell.
If you're booking tickets for the Nuffield Theatre or Lancaster International Concerts at the Box Office have a look at the garden and if you're very lucky you might just see Jonathan and Elizabeth tending to their garden. If you don't spot them you can email the artists direct at makingtime@nuffieldtheatre.com
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Performing on Stage as an audience member can be nerve racking.....!
I've just come back from seeing Oliver Bray's work 'Villa' at the Nuffield and just wanted to share a few thoughts post show to try and give you a flavour!.
The show was in essence was a solo performance by Oliver Bray about a Russian Family's tragic loss. He spent most of the performance reading from a script about a family from Russia. However what made it for me one of the most interesting pieces i've seen at the Nuffield was that 4 audience members were used in the creation of the performance
Now even as a seasoned Nuffield regular (I'm a third year Theatre Studies student - yes I am very old!) audience participation is nerve racking especially when there are only 13 audience members including 4 Ushers! so you knew that it was probably going to be you! Sure enough I was picked out and I have to admit I was terrified because for some reason when not in control (i.e not performing in a degree show etc) I feel very nervous as anyone would feel like being dragged on stage and not knowing what they would be subjected to!. However for the next 4o minutes or so of the performance, I Found it so enjoyable watching how this story was developed through very simple instructions given to me and the 3 other audience members involved on stage. What I thought was most interesting though was the way Oliver told the audience that before the performance started he had already picked out 3 audience members which turned out to be inaccurate which I thought was a very clever trick and one that personally left me feeling relaxed for a second believing that I wasn't going to be on stage! How wrong I was...
Although the very small audience, Bray was a very good solo performer reallying off joke after joke and keeping the audience interested throughout. The mix of forms from lecture style to narration to stand up comedy made for a very lively and funny piece.
If you want to find out more about Oliver and his company 'Until Thursday' check out: http://www.untilthursday.com/
Marcus
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