UK Shopocalypse
T01137226591
Archive :: production:T01137226591, performance:S0536345824, venue:V168
09
Reverend Billy and his magnificent choir will sing, preach, charm, berate, seduce and rescue you, all in one evening. If you feel we’re suffering from shopping overload or if you’re concerned about a world rife with global advertising, multi-national control, global warming, packaging, supermarket domination, TV merchandising and all the rest of the rampant free marketeering in a profit driven wicked and dirty world - then help is at hand my friends. This is your antidote to the devils that plague us. A tongue in cheek evening that will delight and charm even the most hardened devotee of the shopping culture. Hallelujah... Reverend Billy Talen is an actor, performance artist and activist who began his experimental preaching in Times Square in 1994. He is currently banned from every branch of Starbucks in the USA. The Reverend and choir have toured Europe, Africa, South America and North America, where he has been arrested more than 50 times. He is also the Green Party candidate for this year’s Mayoral elections in New York. The Church of Life After Shopping is a project of The Immediate Life, a New York based arts organisation using theatre, humour and grassroots organising to advance individuals and communities towards a more equitable future - starting today. Burst Festival