Collapsing in Parts Footnote 1: 'An Extraordinarily Unnecessary Interlude To Civility (Almost a One Act Play)' With Amy Spencer, Georgie Grace, Richard Parry, Dulcie Lewis and Giles Round
Friday 15 July, 7.30pm at Eastside Projects

An Extraordinarily Unnecessary Interlude To Civility (Almost a One Act Play)

Live Performance, Casettes & Player.
Stage Set (designed by) Giles Round
Intro (from) Boom! (1968)
Monologue (read by) Dulcie Lewis
Dialogue (by and with) Georgie Grace and Amy Spencer
Context (played by) Richard Parry
Outro (from) Robert Palmer (via) Casiotone Disco No. 2

A footnote event as part of her ongoing project at International Project Space, Cally Spooner's new piece for the theatre represents a looping micro-crisis between two states; An emotional actresses’ narcissistic monologue, stuck on loop in an obsolete cassette player, interrupted, insulted and interminably debunked by state two; a dialogue, on public life and good manners. Delivered against a frenetic, projected self-referential backdrop of narcissism, politicians, theatres, hollywood self-love public acting and the sociologist, Richard Sennet, a schizophrenic one-act tug between states emerges, as the cast struggle against interruptions, shifts and projections, to find something useful to say in public.

For her solo exhibition at International Project Space Cally Spooner will produce a new body of writing over a period of eight months. Beginning with a framework without content, Spooner plays with a form of performance as promise, whereby this promise, and the anxiety to produce, becomes a part of the performance itself. Examining the crisis of publicness, progress and the loss of private life, Cally Spooner’s writing will be published in eight parts and made public online as they are written, enacting the process of ‘thinking out loud’ integral to all of Spooner’s work. A series of programmed live events will act as footnotes to the evolving text, adding to the cast of borrowed voices and characters Spooner employs to shape and articulate her own thinking.

www.callyspooner.internationalprojectspace.org

This event is taking place at Eastside Projects as part of their Narrative Show, Act 3 exhibition launch.

Admission Free

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Rehearsal shot: Set for 'An Extraordinarily Unnecessary Interlude To Civility (Almost a One Act Play)'

Rehearsal shot: Set for 'An Extraordinarily Unnecessary Interlude To Civility (Almost a One Act Play)'

Rehearsal shot: Set for 'An Extraordinarily Unnecessary Interlude To Civility (Almost a One Act Play)'