I Gaze From My Kitchen Like An Astronaut
This event on 13th September 2012 has past.
Contact: julia@jaybird.org.uk
From your spaceship, the Earth looks like a marble. It looks like a gobstopper. It could pop like a bubble. Trainee astronauts are screened for poetic souls: those who have them can’t go into space. Too much metaphor on the mind could compromise a mission.
The poets in the show I Gaze From My Kitchen Like an Astronaut – Liz Berry, Kayo Chingonyi and Amy Key – have worked with a theatre director and designer to create new worlds of poetic pleasure and provocation. Their poems come with a payload of star-shine and space-dust, and are performed throughout all the charted and uncharted spaces of the The Royal Centre in Nottingham.
I Gaze From My Kitchen Like an Astronaut is produced by Jaybird, a company producing touring poetry shows which borrow the tricks of the theatrical trade to heighten the performances of talented and inventive poets. Previous shows have included soundscapes and fireworks. I Gaze From My Kitchen Like An Astronaut builds for each poet a setting suggested by the themes of their poems. Words and moods are enhanced with props and subtle choreography: how the poets move, sit and stand on stage helps your eye support what your ear attends. Poems from the page, launched into orbit.
Liz, Kayo and Amy have metaphor on the mind at all times. Their poems will charm and console you, nudge you and urge you. Come and follow their explorations.
I Gaze From My Kitchen Like an Astronaut is produced by Jaybird and directed by Phoebe Stout.
I Gaze From My Kitchen Like an Astronaut is coming to The Royal Centre as part of the World Event Young Artists Festival, with the support of Writing East Midlands. The poets will be performing their individual shows throughout the day from 11am to 4pm - check www.jaybird.org.uk for up to the minute details of who is performing when.
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I Gaze From My Kitchen Like an Astronaut: a poetry show
Date: Thursday 13th September
Time: individual performances throughout the day from 11am – 4pm, check website for details
Venue: Nottingham Royal Centre, Theatre Square, Nottingham NG1 5ND
Tickets: free
Website: www.worldeventyoungartists.com, http://www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk/
In association with: World Event Young Artists and Writing East Midlands
Entry: free
Time: 11am - 4pm (performances throughout the day)
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