Premiere
In a whimsical imaginary underworld of malicious magical realism, metaphysical brain-teasers, labyrinthine pastiche, bittersweet cynicism and malevolent kitsch, two women unpick (and then sewback up again) the structures of hard-boiled noir fiction.
The Little Sleep is a distinctly female take on the hard-boiled noir genre. Centred around a working kitchen, two performers unpick the structures of noir and sew them back up again whilst baking pies and stirring soups. Red herrings and pasties (or should that be patsies?) are also on the menu. Drawing inspiration from The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Malcolm Pryce’s Aberystwyth novels and ‘PIE’ by Angela Boggiano, core Pigeon members Anna and Gill take a darkly unsentimental look at their shared history. The recipe includes paranoia, claustrophobia and grotesque-sexy movement. As ever with Pigeon, the audience play an integral role in the show – come join the feast and see if you can spot ‘the truth’ when you see it.
Pigeon Theatre, greenroom associate artists return with the premiere of their new performance The Little Sleep.
Pigeon Theatre are a Manchester-based performance company that make small and medium scale theatre, site-specific and multi-media work.
“We are a physical performance company that specialises in experimental work with unusual spatial arrangements and site-specific work.”
The company is actively engaged in researching sensual and physical audience engagement and the creation of immersive, intimate audience environments. The aim is to make high quality, innovative physical performance that challenges and engages audiences, that rethinks the relationship between ‘performer’ and ‘spectator’, that rethinks what a performance space can be, and that is highly entertaining, physically exhilarating, risky, demanding (for spectators and performers) and just plain good fun.
Pigeon Theatre are:
Anna Fenemore – Artistic Director
Louise Bennett – Performer
Gillian Knox – Performer
Amanda Griffiths – Producer
For more information go to: www.pigeontheatre.com
