MUST: The Inside Story
Clod Ensemble in collaboration with Peggy Shaw
Produced by Fuel
In collaboration with the celebrated Clod Ensemble, legendary New York performance artist Peggy Shaw takes the audience on a journey across the landscape of her own body.
Renowned for her own gender bending autobiographical work, she recounts her extraordinary experiences of the medical profession from her current perspective as a 65-year-old lesbian grandmother. MUST weaves together the stories of a lifetime - giving birth on the way to Woodstock, her mother's electric shock treatment in 1950s America, the loss of a loved one - with projected microscopic images, and live musicians performing a powerful score for piano, double bass and violin.
By Suzy Willson and Peggy Shaw. Directed by Suzy Willson. Music by Paul Clark. Performed by Peggy Shaw. Live Musicians featured are Calina De La Mare, John-Paul Gandy & Andrew Hall.
Design by Sarah Blenkinsop. Lighting by Hansjörg Schmidt. For more information visit www.clodensemble.com.
MUST: The Inside Story will be performed on 15 March at Oxfordshire Science Festival, Oxford
(www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.co.uk), 20 March at Newcastle Science Festival, Newcastle
(www.newcastlesciencefest.co.uk), and 23 March at Arts & Health Symposium, Glasgow.
For further information on these and more shows visit www.fueltheatre.com.
Founded in 2004 and led by Louise Blackwell and Kate McGrath, Fuel is a producing organisation working in partnership with some of the most exciting theatre artists in the UK to develop, create and present new work for all ages.
Fuel's projects are varied in form and content, and happen in all sorts of places: from an exploration of the natural light in Brighton as an installation in a basement, to a retelling of Kafka's Metamorphosis touring 500+ seat theatres from the UK to Iceland, Korea and beyond; from a playful look at history in a disused state building in Bucharest, to an army of women storming Trafalgar Square under helicopter surveillance. In the past Fuel has worked with artists including Marisa Carnesky, NIE, Mark Murphy, National Theatre of Scotland, Gecko and Blind Summit. From 2006 to 2008 Fuel produced the entire programme at the Lyric Hammersmith.
Fuel is currently working with Will Adamsdale, Dave Blake, Clod Ensemble, Inua Ellams, Fevered Sleep, Paul Hodson, Peepolykus, David Rosenberg, Sound&Fury, Melly Still, Richard Thomas, Will Tuckett, Uninvited Guests and Melanie Wilson.
