The Un-knitted Lives of Young Girls is part of a long collaborative relationship between visual and performance artist Anne Bean and young Iraqi performance artist Poshya Kakl. The performance was a screening of Kakl’s film Knitting Iron on two large screens hung on either side of a long industrial space in Birmingham’s AE Harris factory. The film documents […]
Writings
![The Un-knitted Lives of Young Girls ¦ Photo: Graeme Braidwood](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/anne-bean-posha-kakl-unknitted.jpg)
Anne Bean / Poshya Kakl: The Un-knitted Lives of Young Girls
July 8th, 2011 by Hannah Sullivan![cieLaroque/helene weinzierl: THINK FISH part I ¦ Photo: Graeme Braidwood](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/cie-laroque-helene-weinzierl-think-fish.jpg)
cieLaroque/helene weinzierl: THINK FISH part I
July 8th, 2011 by Hannah SullivanTHINK FISH by the Austrian company cieLaroque/helene weinzierl was the final performance of what had been a tense Friday evening at the BE Festival, and so its light energy and easygoing comic style was well received. CieLaroque/helene weinzierl are described in the programme as Austria’s most prolific dance touring ensemble, demonstrating BE Festival’s success in importing […]
![Sleepwalk Collective: As the flames rose we danced to the sirens, the sirens ¦ Graeme Braidwood](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sleepwalk-collective-as-the-flames-rose-we-danced-sirens-1.jpg)
Sleepwalk Collective: As the flames rose we danced to the sirens, the sirens
July 8th, 2011 by Hannah SullivanA lone woman in a blonde ‘Marilyn’ wig and slick black dress stands at a tall microphone. She speaks to us directly but with an accent that’s hard to place and poetic text that, like a dream, starts in one place and ends in another. The blonde woman talks about black and white movies and […]
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Kulunka Theatre: André & Dorine
July 8th, 2011 by Hannah SullivanAndré & Dorine, by Basque company Kulunka Theatre, was a mask theatre performance with an impressive set design – an offering that appeared gleamingly polished among BE Festival’s mixed programme of work-in-progress and finished pieces. The full-face masks were very impressive and endearing, depicting an elderly couple with caricature large heads. An old man sat […]
![Laura Mugridge: Running On Air ¦ Photo: Joe Martin](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/laura-mugridge-running-on-air.jpg)
Laura Mugridge: Running On Air
July 4th, 2011 by Terry O'DonovanComedian Laura Mugridge, in collaboration with Tom Frankland, has created a tiny gem of a show with her ‘solo’ performance Running On Air. It’s not entirely a solo performance – her yellow VW campervan, called Joany, in which the show takes place is a character herself. And the audience, which is limited to five at a […]