Death is an unavoidable presence in our lives. I tend to find that when approaching such large subjects one can be overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of thoughts, ideas, stories and feelings. In Death and Gardening Wet Picnic have chosen to tell a relatively straightforward story in treating the topic, and this is a good […]
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Winchester Hat Fair
July 25th, 2013 by Edward TaylorWinchester Hat Fair (now in its 39th year) has always had its roots in street busking and performance art, from the likes of Forkbeard Fantasy to the late, great art nuisance Ian Hinchliffe. So it was good to return in 2013 to see that those traditions are still being adhered to, but that the developments […]
Wet Picnic: Death and Gardening
August 3rd, 2012 by Charlotte SmithYellow raincoats, oversize glasses, woolly hats and torches… do they sound a familiar bunch? Ah, but you didn’t know that Gherkin, Flora and Brian come to collect people before they die. Like the hapless 30 year-old David (Viktor Lukawski), who spends some of the show on a vertical deathbed. At its best, Death and Gardening by Wet […]