A Progress Report/Eau De Toilette
T01070708779
Demolitions:
A Progress Report by The Demolition Project (Debbie Kent + Alisa Oleva) - A performance-lecture which mixes documentary and the quasi-fictional to re-imagine what London could look like if its inhabitants had their way. It combines live performance, recorded audio, film footage and audience participation to ask questions about people's relationship with their city, framed - with playful humour - as a snapshot of research for a real participatory art project.
Eau de Toilette by Emily Bee - One woman. And a toilet.
"It may appear that I am staring into toilet water. And I am staring into toilet water. But what I am seeing is not toilet water. What I am seeing is an ocean..." Eau de Toilette takes a contemplative look at one of London's unnoticed: the toilet attendant. Unable to find work, an educated but illegal immigrant is forced to take a job as a London toilet attendant. She has no papers, so must waste away her years in a toilet. Bored and depressed; her genius mind runs away from her, creating bizarre situations as she chases meaning and spirituality in the inhospitable environment of the nightclub toilet. But then she realises. She has all the paper she ever wanted. Mixing exoticism with gritty realities, a personal and darkly comic story of travel, identity and spirituality is told. Through monologues, dance pieces, surreal videos and karaoke numbers, the nightclub toilet is transformed into a magical and spiritual space of self-discovery. The toilet bowl into a font of holy water unto which the subject is eventually flushed in an act of baptism and re-birth. Expect exotic dancing with perfume bottles, whirling dervishes, throat singing and toilet roll.
Archive :: production:T01070708779, play:S1126498212, venue:V0478944234
