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‘A seamless flow of beautifully crafted, intelligent images’ Live Art Magazine, UK
In 1996, Robert Pacitti travelled to New York to spend time with the author, raconteur and professional homosexual, Quentin Crisp.
Pacitti wanted to create a new theatre work that took Crisp's infamous autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant as a starting point. Issues of disobedience and liberty abound, as Crisp had always run the gauntlet of public disapproval and was a forerunner to many of the then queer and post-gay identities of the day.
Civil premiered in Manchester in 1996, opening the Queer Up North Festival. Since Crisp’s death in 1999, Civil has developed and grown, and a work that set out to explore shared aspirations and joint activism has become a series of images and ideas placed in relation to notions of legacy.
At a time when civil liberties are being eroded, this work has never more pertinent.
Civil explores notions of lineage, and becomes a process about letting go – of ownership, of origin, and ultimately of Crisp – and features live performance, film, slides, original sound materials and music.
Pacitti Company is a London based ensemble of international theatre makers, live artists, visual artists, sound and film-makers, researchers and technicians.
The Company has spent nearly two decades producing and touring an award winning body of radical new performance works worldwide. Committed to rigour and craft, the Company blends formal disciplines and techniques with social sciences and personal politics.
‘The most unusual and unsettling theatre currently in London’ The Guardian, UK
Arts House presents
Pacitti Company
Civil
Performed by Richard Eton
Director Robert Pacitti
Production Management Martin Langthorne
www.pacitticompany.com
Warning: Over 18 only. This show contains adult themes, nudity and explicit images
Venue: Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall | 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne Mel Ref: 2A J10
Dates: Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 August 2008
Times: 7.30pm 70 minutes no interval
Tickets: $28 / $22
Bookings: artshouse.com.au or 03 9639 0096
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