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My Robot Heart, by Molly Naylor with music from The Middle Ones
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Molly Naylor presents a warm, beguiling and poignant storytelling show – with music from folky duo The Middle Ones. Inspired by experiments about love using robots in Japan, Molly offers the tale of three generations of one family and an impending wedding. Together they explore the meanings of love and fear, and the relationship between the two. Following it’s acclaimed Edinburgh Festival run in 2012; Molly takes her show on tour throughout 2013.
This show enjoyed a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year and is touring throughout Spring 2013. My Robot Heart plays the Chapter Arts centre in Cardiff on May 18th.
“Brave, funny, tough and beautiful writing” – The Guardian
“This show sees theatre, live music and stand-up comedy in perfect harmony – never more one than the other – making it an ideal triptych of entertainment” –
Metro
At a time when her friends were getting married and settling down Molly found herself having to deal with the break-up of her long-term relationship. Molly sought answers to questions of love, fear and self-doubt through an experiment. She shut herself away from the outside world and wrote a story: a story charting three characters as they negotiated love, life fear and an impending wedding. Molly hoped that the narrative might provide her with some much-needed perspective of her own as she laments her lost sense of romance and figures out if love is more than just a science.
“Hearteningly vivid and acutely observed… This woman is genuinely talented” –
The Times
“A funny, touching, sad and life affirming piece of theatre” –
The Scotsman
Molly Naylor’s debut show, Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think Of You, enjoyed considerable audience and critical acclaim at the 2010 Fringe. This mix of biographical storytelling and spoken word recounting her life post 7/7 (Molly was in one of the bombed tube carriages) was subsequently adapted into a BBC Radio Four play and published as a graphic novel as well as playing to sell-out audiences across the UK, Ireland and USA.
“Naylor’s writing contains some lovely, wry observations” – ____
The Telegraph
“Wholly adorable charm and sneakily brilliant tunesmithery” –
The Fly, on The Middle Ones
Molly Naylor is an accomplished poet, playwright and theatre-maker from Cornwall. Her play When You Left I Thought I’d Die But Now I’m Fine was staged at The Bush theatre in 2011 as part of their Sixty Six Books project. She has written for The Independent and her poems have been featured across BBC Radio. The Middle Ones are Anna Knowles (guitar, vocals) and Grace Denton (accordion, percussion, vocals). They released their debut full-length album, It Is The Rehearsal That Will Make This, in 2011 and regularly tour the UK playing with the likes of Jeffrey Lewis.
This tour is gratefully supported by Battersea Arts Centre and Grants For Arts tour funding from Arts Council England
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