This spring performer and director Mem Morrison kicks off his tour to eight venues across the UK with his one-man show: Leftovers, in which the full English breakfast is given a Citizenship Test. Mem returns to his roots to explore the cultural connotations of the traditional greasy spoon café, performing in Canterbury, Coventry, Colchester, Ipswich, Oxford, Cardiff and London. The tour will be rounded up by two final performances in a greasy spoon café for Mayfest in Bristol: a different version of the piece designed especially to be held in cafés. Using sound installation, performance and serving up a full fry-up to the audience, brunch and teatime performances will be at a secret café location, to be revealed.Leftovers explores culture and cultural difference and how this is expressed through food. It is a gentle exploration of how cultures meet and mingle, eat, socialise and influence each other. Leftovers takes Mem Morrison’s culinary and cultural concerns out onto the High Street to un-cover an English café culture that has been assimilated and imperceptibly changed by generations of Turkish Cypriot families. “A gentle, unassuming show that has plenty to say about how food keeps us apart, as well as how it helps us come together and create new understandings” - Guardian Guide Mem Morrison is an Artsadmin artist. Watch a video clip of Leftovers at: http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/memmorrison 4 April/Ebrill 8pm Wales Millenium Centre/ Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru Cardiff/ Caerdydd 08700 40 2000 www.wmc.org.uk Post-Show Talk Students Deal - £5 Tickets (limited availability) |
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 |
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