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MUST A collaboration between Peggy Shaw and Clod Ensemble
TOTAL THEATRE AWARD SPECIAL COMMENDATION 2009
Journey through the hills and valleys of one woman’s body
Adventure across the melting ice caps and the thirsty desertsI keep finding the future inside of me
I can hear it really loud
Coming like a field of windmills, or a hive of bees.MUST is a poetic look at what it feels like to have a body. It excavates the memories and images contained in the joints and layers of bone.
Inspired by images from Gulliver’s Travels, Hildegarde von Bingen, The Elephant Man and everyday experiences of the medical profession, Must takes a hard stare at the medical gaze and the assumptions people make about each others bodies.
Written for the Art Injection series, the performance platform for the company’s Performing Medicine project, the piece is comprised of seven minute sections. Seven minutes because this is the amount of time you spend with your doctor.
Supported by Arts Council England (as part of the Performing Medicine Project)
Supported by a Wellcome Trust People AwardBy Peggy Shaw & Suzy Willson
Original music by Paul Clark"A beautiful performance, measured, grounded, delicate and yet immensely powerful, of a brave and beguiling piece of writing." Lyn Gardner, The Guardian * * * * Full Review
"I sincerely urge you to spend an hour in the hands of a genius."
Phoebe Cottam, Edinburgh Festivals Magazine * * * * * Full Review
28 May - 5 June, London, Soho Theatre, 7.30pm, £12.50 (£10 concs.), 020 7478 0100
Matinees 29 May, 3 & 5 June, 3pm25-26 May, Manchester, Queer Up North
21 May, Glasgow, The Arches
17-18 May, Bristol, Mayfest
23 March, Glasgow, Arts & Health Symposium
20 March, Newcastle, Newcastle Science Festival
15 March, Oxford, Oxfordshire Science Festival
7-17 January 2010 (not 8, 11 & 14), New York, Under the Radar Festival (Public Theater)21-31 August 2009, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009 (for full details of the Fuel at the Fringe Edinburgh programme, click here).
15 March 2009, The Junction in Cambridge.
12 March 2009, Leeds Met Studio, Leeds.
25 February 2009, The ShowRoom in Chichester
27, 29 & 30 November 2008, Wellcome Collection as part of Clod Ensemble's Performing Medicine.
8 March 2008, Bernie Grant Arts Centre.
6 March 2008, John Ellis Lecture Theatre, Royal London Hospital, as part of the Art Injections series.
15 & 22 November 2007, Wellcome Collection as part of Fantastic Voyage.
The first dose of MUST was administered at BAC for their End of the World Cabaret on 5 May, 2007.
MUST is available for touring. For further information please contact Louise Blackwell louise@fueltheatre.com
Peggy Shaw
Peggy Shaw is a self-made independent performer, writer, teacher, producer from New York. She co-founded with Lois Weaver The WOW Cafe Theatre in New York, and the World-renowned Touring Theatre Company Split Britches, both of which have been in operation for 26 years. She is also a solo performer and tours her trio on masculinity You're Just like My Father, Menopausal Gentleman, and To My Chagrin. She is the recipient of three Village Voice Obie Awards and has also been awarded the Stonewall Award for 'making the world a better place'. Peggy has collaborated with the Clod Ensemble before on It's A Small House and Miss Risque.For Suzy Willson and Paul Clark's biographies click here.
