Separation of Mixtures (Instant Winner)
In February 2009 Ehsan Gill emerged victorious over 24 other pitches to take away the coveted Instant Win prize. Separation of Mixtures is the result: a participatory experiment into image and identity; a playful questioning of where we sit on the colour spectrum and a challenge to the continued primacy of the heterosexual white male. Ehsan Gill is a researcher, lecturer and artist currently focusing on the implications of identity formation for the Asian male body in the contemporary political climate.
Separation of Mixtures is a one-to-one experience which runs every 15 minutes from 6pm. To book a slot call our Box Office on 0161 615 0500.
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Villa
Oliver Bray, Artistic Director of Until Thursday Theatre Company, is performing solo in this new work that’s based around a Russian family’s tragic story of loss. Villa is as much about idiotic British naivety as it is pseudo-philosophical wordplay and Chekhov. Some of you will be implicated, directly. Some of you will enjoy the story, a bit. Some of you will be amused, at it. But know this – I’m on my own, my suit is sharp and someone is going to have to sit in those chairs.
One can only kill starlings for so long.
A foray into Eastern Europe that subtly upsets those narrative conventions that we pretend not to be so desperate for. This work, which tastes a little of Chekhov, smells like a Beckett rip-off and stinks of empire-building naivety, acknowledges the refusal of any mind not to ‘get it’ – and we so love getting it.
Until Thursday have been making theatre performances for 6 years. Previous works include, the fragmented and boozy We Should Have Stood Still, the best selling and Hip Hoppy Droppin’ Shoppin’ and the bitter-sweet, politically ignorant It’s a Question of Taste.
