‘IN THE FLESH’ FESTIVAL PACKS A PUNCH
The In the Flesh Festival takes place in Plymouth from the 13 – 15 November at the Barbican Theatre and Plymouth Arts Centre. Returning for the fourth year, the festival brings a riot of noise, colour and unusual beauty to the city, celebrating live performance and all things human.
In the Flesh ’09 is a feast of live performance: from theatre to live art, from music to dance, from the unusual through the extraordinary and the downright unmentionable. It incorporates performances at different stages of development, from initial wild ideas to polished finished work, with new, up and coming artists to more established practitioners using the freedom of In the Flesh to try something new.
This year over 50 regional, national and international companies will perform over three days across six spaces and two venues as part of the festival.
As well as the electric mix of work and performances at the Barbican Theatre, Plymouth Arts Centre will be hosting an exciting line up of local and international performance artists curated by Mark Greenwood of Red Ape. They will be responding to ideas of identity, displacement, loss and duration.
In the Flesh ‘09 includes a special commission from Tim Brommage, he of fish-hook performance fame, the Mr Dangerous of previous years, a lullaby performance to audiences of one from Mr and Mrs Clarke, a singing Fairground, the return of performance company Glass Eyed with Sex Idiot, a new show based on previous boyfriends and a box of found love letters, falling sand, an actor locked inside four television screens, a man and an audience in a toilet, a woman in a bath, a man who breaks fluorescent lights over himself, an all male dance company pushing the limits of what dance can mean, two very large talking rabbits and a woman called Organ Donor Betty.
In the Flesh is a warm, welcoming, fun, unusual and thought provoking three days which celebrates real people in real space and time, laughing, crying, giggling, sighing, whispering, wincing, roaring and even being silent together.
Pre booking is advisable. Call 01752 267131, tickets are £8/£6 and weekend tickets are £20/£15
See www.barbicantheatre.co.uk for the full programme.
