An English Family 2018 . Story #1
February 16th . 10 pm + February 17th . 6 pm . mala voadora
Story #1 is a reflective consideration of how and why we construct narrative. Greg Wohead and Rachel Mars, in the first piece of an ongoing collaboration between them, made to themselves to create something very unlike what they’d tackled previously in their solo work: they’re interested in exploring where danger can poke through the narrative and intersect with the ‘real’. In TV everything is behind a screen. In performance where we acknowledge from the top that we are all in a room together, the ‘realness’ of that - the real-time shifting boundaries of that contract - presents danger far aside from content.
We promise no less than 110 minutes.
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.
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Rachel Mars is a performer and writer. Her work interrogates the idiosyncratic cultural and political constructs that inform the way we operate together. Her latest projects have seen her tackle the uses and abuses of humour, invite young girls to smash her dad’s reject pottery to bits with hammer and create pop-up choirs to sing songs about envy. In the past couple of years she made work with the support of The Royal Court, Ovalhouse, Fuel Theatre, The Wellcome Trust, Cambridge Junction, Playwrights’ Workshop (Montreal), Asylum Residency and The Orchard Project (NY). She is a finalist in the 2016 Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award and an Artist Fellow at Birkbeck University. She regularly features on BBC Radio’s ‘Pause for Thought’, where she pretends to know things about faith.
Greg Wohead is a writer, performer and live artist originally from Texas. He makes theatre performances, one-to-one pieces and audio works. He draws on a broad range of references and forms including autobiography, found audio, film, historical reenactment and fan fiction. His recent touring work includes Celebration, Florida, Comeback Special, and The Ted Bundy Project. His work has been seen at theatres and festivals in the UK, US and Europe including Battersea Arts Centre, Bristol Old Vic, Ovalhouse, Mayfest, Northern Stage, BUZZCUT, The Yard, Forest Fringe, Bios (Athens), LAX Festival (Los Angeles), Fusebox Festival (Austin) and ArtPower (San Diego).