we are getting a great reaction to this up-coming show with photos of hand bags flowing in. Don't forget to bring your fav bag with you to the show!'
Christine was inspired to do this piece, like many of her projects, when she is in her kitchen or garden, when her mind is free floating and Bing, in comes an idea! It is a development on a previous solo performance piece she did in Exeter Phoenix & in Torre Abbey called ‘My Life in Boxes’. Christine explored old suitcases and boxes from her past and it became a life story, live and uncovered. Hand-Baggage is about how her bags through the years has shown the various stages of change both emotionally and stylistically in her life and how keeping all these bags and their memories is both baggage and nostalgia. Christine has taken this theme further out on the streets of Totnes and asked people to discuss and reveal their bags and contents. Christine has also invited celebrated artists to perform and write their own responses to the idea. A wide and unusual collection of performances has emerged from David Rees, Josephine Larsen, Basira Ward Davis and others.
The audience is asked to bring their own favourite bag and to discuss it over a glass of Madeira. Come and share your handbag stories. It will be fun and different. You might even see the bag of your dreams!
The audience is asked to bring their own favourite bag and to discuss it over a glass of Madeira. Come and share your handbag stories. It will be fun and different. You might even see the bag of your dreams!
Christine Sweetman: Performer, Singer, Director of ‘On The Button Productions’
Christine has been in the world of creativity for some years! She likes most to work with others and enjoys the sparks of collaboration. She has previously performed a piece entitled ‘my life in boxes’ which has inspired this current piece.
Basria HB - Singer, Performer
Basira has been a professional singer and performer for over 30 years and has sung all over the world for a wide variety of engagements. She enjoys experimenting with mixed media fusions in singing and has worked with film, dance and theatre and has been a long term collaborator with Christine Sweetman.
She is inspired by the idea of Art as a transformational process and a way to express the deeper parts of the human condition, loss, grief, death and spiritual consciousness.
She sees the theme of bags fascinating both in a personal way and also how 'bags' and 'baggage' are terms loaded with metaphorical meaning.
She is inspired by the idea of Art as a transformational process and a way to express the deeper parts of the human condition, loss, grief, death and spiritual consciousness.
She sees the theme of bags fascinating both in a personal way and also how 'bags' and 'baggage' are terms loaded with metaphorical meaning.
Lorcan Fox - Graduate of National Film School of Ireland
Lorcan Fox is a graduate of the national film school of Ireland.
He works on TV and film projects around the world.
He spends too much time reading and worrying about football and can't decide if intervention in Syria is a good thing or not.
Big lover of food.
www.lorco.me
He works on TV and film projects around the world.
He spends too much time reading and worrying about football and can't decide if intervention in Syria is a good thing or not.
Big lover of food.
www.lorco.me
Josephine Larsen - Actor
Josephine Larsen has performed in just about every manifestation of theatre so far over the past 50 years in 7 different countries. It is not the first time she has performed in a bag. The last time she did this was in Copenhagen in a strip club.
This time she will be stretching the boundaries of the bag world, by imagining what it feels like to be lost in the skin of neither man nor woman.
www.the-actors-studio.co.uk
This time she will be stretching the boundaries of the bag world, by imagining what it feels like to be lost in the skin of neither man nor woman.
www.the-actors-studio.co.uk
David Rees - Actor
David Rees: Performance experience includes; traditional dance, street and conventional theatre , time based video and installations, radio, tv, sketch shows and currently a colleague of Christine's in 'Improperly' improvisation group.
Hand Baggage for me is an opportunity to celebrate one of the greatest and most iconic artefacts of human history.
Hand Baggage for me is an opportunity to celebrate one of the greatest and most iconic artefacts of human history.
James Cotter - Actor
James Cotter’s work in theatre includes Bill Kenwright's production of Agatha Christie's Witness For The Prosecution at The Princess Theatre, Jesus Christ Superstar at The Northcott, Bill Kenwright's European Tour of Evita at The Bristol Hippodrome, Cabaret at The Sidmouth Manor Pavilion, The Sound of Music at The Northcott, Round and Round the Garden, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Adventures of Mr. Toad all on tour. Films include World War Z (2013), The Wedding Video (2012) and The Sweeney (2012). TV includes Skins (E4) Wakey, Wakey (ITV). Radio includes A Comic Review of the Year for BBC Radio.
Hand-baggage Performance - Time, Date and Cost:
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Entrance: £5.00
At: Bogan House, 43 High Street, Totnes, TQ9 5NP When: Saturday October 26th @ 7.30 pm Contact: Christine Sweetman +44 (0) 1803 866577 or +44 (0) 7979 651193 Don't forget to bring your favourite bag with you! |
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