Hello. Thanks to everyone who made last night such a brilliant, and bizarre happening. The performers were all wonderful and the audience, perfect. A bit of free form programming happened there, but where else are you going to get all this stuff?
So watch out for the next thing which in all likelihood is going to be The Christmas Bullet, from 15th - 20th December. And if anyone is in our fair city for Christmas itself then there may be a dinner over this way. But for now, thanks again and see you soon.
Also a reminder that the Viennese Market Café will be a weekly thing so come by why not. If you would like a stall, please contact Francis Barking on 07832212872
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Lost Luggage is the 6th major event from us here at STK and the last one before Christmas, so feast your eyes on the unbelievably brilliant selection of top quality artists making theatre and music below and we’ll see you here. The café starts at 2pm and the acts from about 4pm. As always, a nice bar, and this time when it gets dark we’ll bring out the warming broth.
Thomas Truax
"There's a fine line between the unique and the insane, and it's a line which New Yorker Thomas Truax straddles with his chin held high and Hornicator firmly glued to his left ear.”
Come and find out what that means. I know, and it is good. Strange music played by a strange man on strange machines. Very good. When I saw him last, he out-freaked some pissed northern birds because they were heckling him. They were quiet after that.
Vadoinmessico
Our dear friends return for another gig after trying out some early stuff a few months ago. That time they only did about 10 minutes, but now they are ready to do it properly with some rare melodic beauty and a banjo. Oh yes, that makes some people round here very happy indeed.
Last Mango In Paris
We say: “Don’t miss this! They are BRILLIANT!” He says: “Last Mango in Paris brings performance poetry into the 21st century, in an extract of ‘Broken English’ - a spoken word show embracing music, drama, storytelling and stand-up comedy. Last Mango In Paris is Anglo-Asian iconoclast Shane Solanki, whose urban poetry tackles identity with a comic twist. Solanki’s subversive wordplay is juxtaposed with the sweet, smoky vocals of Sabira Jade Botterill.” Both accurate comments really.
Rún
Rún are five fantastic (and seriously beautiful) lassies who perform four-part vocal arrangements of old Gaelic songs like 'An Cailín Rua' (the red-haired girl), 'Casadhant Súgain' (twisting the hayrope) and 'Bo Na Leath Adhairce' (the one-horned cow). Rún is the Gaelic word for 'secret, wish or love' (cf. rune). Just what we all need as we go into winter. Why does this music have that resonance?
PREGNANT?!
The genius of renegade zoologist Mamoru Iriguchi must be experienced to be believed. His imagination is from another dimension. Pregnant?! is a one-(crossdressed-pseudopregnant) man show about his journey to seek ways to deal with overly intimate relationship with others in and out of his own body. Tantalising, innit?
Spit, Spat, Spat.
Eirini Kartsaki writes and performs this one, a fictive beginning, a false entrance, a story that begins by repeating itself. Its first time takes place several times of which one, among others, is the last. A performance about the way you count things with your fingers, that dear man, the shallow water, the desire to be loved.
We first met as she was frozen in time outside the Hackney Empire whilst someone threw teabags at her.
Christopher Thomas Allen
Lightsurgeon and artist Chris shows some memory luggage. Cases that speak their contents, made from recordings of people trying to remember the contents of their luggage. Absolutely perfect to peruse during the day.
All Photography is a Limp Salute to Death
Glyn Cannon finds a bag of old polaroids he never knew existed, all featuring one particular important individual. But each one hurts a little more. What should he do? Burn them? Eat them? Show them to friends? Or to strangers?
Crikey! What a lot of stuff. See you Saturday.
Larry’s Goodbye
But it's not me
She puts on her make up, does her hair and puts on some clothes. She doesn't like what she's wearing. She changes her clothes. She does it again. She looks at her wristwatch and there's not much time left. But it's not me Part 2 is a silent performance by one performer on stage.
The Robbery
STK co-founder Zekan Cemal and musician Will Kluz present a skulduggerous vignette of music and thievery. Things takes an unexpected twist on a planned break in and it all becomes personal.
What do you steal when you break in, but what’s there, you already have?..
Do you want to steal, or do you want it stolen?
