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Aberystwyth Arts Centre Cuncrete by Rachael Clerke & The Great White Males Friday 10 November |
Housing policy and the power of old white men will be smashed out throughout the country this autumn by drag king punk band The Great White Males and their leader, proto-god figure Archibald Tactful.Hosted by award winning Bristol-based theatre maker, satirist, drag performer and punk singer Rachael Clerke as Archibald Tactful, Cuncrete is a noisy gig-based treatise on masculinity and the built environment. Coming off the back of a successful Summerhall run at Edinburgh Fringe 2016 and a spring tour, this is an unapologetic satire framing the housing crisis, Thatcherism & our current political class through the lens of the alpha-male. Join the Great White Males - a house band comprised of social climbers, cabinet ministers, and righteously perfect male men Little Keith, Uncle Jonty and Johnnie Jove - for sing-a-long classics such as ‘Right To Buy’, ‘Living In Utopia’ and ‘Brutal, Brutal’. Created with help from academics, planners and architects, Cuncrete embraces a world of housing shortages, decaying post-war estates, feminist theory and default man. It is political, spiky and joyfully noisy. Cuncrete has been described by the artist as a gig with talky bits between the songs. The show takes its lead from the current social climate of men in suits, mistrust and skewed gender politics as well as a lifelong love of concrete. The Great White Males are Josephine Joy (Johnnie Jove - bass), Jo Hellier (Jonty, Earl of Twitworth - guitar), Anna Smith (Little Keith - drums) and Rachael Clerke (Archibald Tactful - vocals). Cuncrete is created by Rachael Clerke with dramaturgy from Emma Frankland. Costumes are by Sabrina Shirazi and lighting design is by Ben Jacobs. Cuncrete will be at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on Friday 10 November. Tickets are available from the Box Office on 01970 62 32 32 or online at www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk " a thundering, sickly collision of punk rock and modernist architecture... an exhilaratingly bleak swansong for the grey, hard dreams of powerful men." – ★★★★ The Stage "Abrasive, satirical humour. It’s brilliantly silly." – ★★★★ Fest “Politically vital” – Exeunt |
| Aberystwyth Arts Centre web site: www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk |
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