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Three spoken word performers, one musician – absolutely no interference
STATIC is an audacious new spoken word musical performance featuring renowned Melbourne poets Alicia Sometimes, Sean M Whelan and poet-playwright Nathan Curnow and backed by Melbourne composer Quinn Stacpoole. Supported by The Age Melbourne Writers Festival, the 60-minute performance will premiere at the festival on
Friday August 29, on a double bill with US slam poet, sound artist and theatrical performer Tracie Morris.
A man having a dream about his own death is confronted by a lion; a lion with the face of actor Harvey Kietel; intimate love poems collide with homage to Blind Willie Johnson; harsh country landscapes swallow forlorn teenagers eager to follow the stars. These are just three stories unfolding around many others. In STATIC, no story stands on its own for long. Like modern life, it is a head rush of multiplicity!
Produced and directed by Melbourne playwright Kieran Carroll with set design by Carlie Devine, STATIC is accessible for anyone who is curious. With its rich strand of imagination and bold stepping across artistic borders, theatre lovers, literature devotees and pop and rock music followers will all find surprising twists of form happily coalescing.
STATIC has developed from a commission by literary journal Going Down Swinging (GDS). Published since 1980, GDS has been anthologising spoken word recordings since 1999. Two years ago GDS began commissioning new work from Victorian spoken word performers, with the support of Arts Victoria.
“Bringing three of these commissions together enables us to fulfil a dream, of being able to provide a significant opportunity for poets who are doing interesting things with words and performance to work together,” said GDS Editor Lisa Greenaway. “Australian spoken word artists are recognised as being among the best in the world, yet there are very few opportunities in this country for them to develop their art. We’re looking forward to listening to these amazing storytellers, and taking them to audiences around the state.”
STATIC will go on the road to perform regional shows, the first being the Ex Libris Port Fairy Book Fair on Saturday September 6.
Where space and dreams collide, where the Victorian countryside meets the urban alleyway, where music adds an irresistible layer, where many stories form a TV channel you don’t have to change…that’s STATIC.
Going Down Swinging presents at The Age Melbourne Writers Festival
STATIC: white noise writ large
Friday 29 August
BMW Edge Theatre, Federation Square
Double Bill: 8.30pm Tracie Morris 9.20pm STATIC
Full $20 Concession $18
For tickets and information: www.mwf.com.au
Ex Libris Port Fairy Book Fair
Saturday 6 September, 8pm
Lecture Hall, Sackville Street, Port Fairy
Full $12 Concession $8
For tickets and information: www.exlibris.port-fairy.com
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