Catatonically deadpan, gratuitously vapid and gleefully strung out, KARAOKE is a performance about love and rockets for 2 perfformers and an autocue.
Playing out as an actual karaoke, the text and action read off of a screen and projected up for all the audience to see, the show is an exercise in anti-theatricality that’s either brazenly cynical or pathetically honest depending on how you want to look at it. There will be an awkward kind of chemistry. Anarcotic kind of grace. And when the chorus kicks in we can all sing along with it…
KARAOKE is the second part of LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, a loosely connected trilogy of performances about pleasure and boredom in this the adolescent decade of the 21st Century.
‘Fluent visual and verbal poetry...pulsing with a weird insistent life’
“Like looking into a fun-house mirror, with the way it takes what you know then stretches and benda it, giving yourself back to you like some distressing and fascinating gift”
“Verging on the transcendent”
Created by Sleepwalk Collective
ORIGINAL IDEA AND CREATION: Sleepwalk Collective
PERFORMANCE: iara Solano Arana y Sammy Metcalfe
TEXT: Sammy Metcalfe, con iara Solano Arana
ORIGINAL MUSIC AND PROJECTIONS: Sammy Metcalfe
STAGE AND COSTUME: iara Solano Arana
LIGHTS: David Alcorta
PHOTOS: Alessia Bombaci
- With the support of Battersea Atrs Centre (London), Residence (Bristol), Azala Espacio de Creación (Spain) and T.A.E. Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain).
- Support on tour: Instituto Etxepare.
