GIG: 23 April: My 1-woman stand-up/running show/running joke: ON RUNNING (LONDON), HAPPINESS AND PLAYING AMBASSADOR OF PLATFORM 9 ¾

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BOOK HERE TO ATTEND. Sensingsite: Materialising Site. Lethaby Gallery, Central St Martins N1C 4AA. My performance is the last, at 3:15pm. So let’s keep it short and sweet. 

Love London but feel lost? Fancy flanuering and dériving – but getting a tad tired of walking? Had enough of the 10,000 CCTVs shadowing your every move? Sick of being seen as an Other? Run out of ideas to fend off sexual harassment?? Refuse to toe the party-line or to take things lying down? Tried sit-ins and walk-outs – but need something more poetic? Curious about parkour and skateboarding as urban tactics to re-assert your autonomy, but not fit enough? Come join me in this stand-up – or rather, running – 1-woman show. Let merun through the ways in which running can empower you to feel a sense of ownership of London. Along the way, I will share a few secrets about being undercover as ‘Nondon’ Ambassador during the 2012 Olympics, happiness – and Platform 9¾. Perhaps I will also touch on mortality/ageing, as this will be 1 day before my birthday…

 

 

RUNCHAT: interview on-the-run with Live Marianne Noven

 

Live (what a fab [real] name!!!) is a theatre specialist currently doing her BA at the Aberystwyth University (it cannot be easy to be Welsh, or be a dyslexic Welsh, having to swim your way through so many consonants….I’d need more time to fill up forms too.). A keen runner, Live aims to synthesis running with her performative work, and wants to put up a piece for her final year show in May. Exciting!! At the meantime, she is filming/interviewing people who run. I was one of them. This took place at Regents Park, just after a shower (not me/her/us, but by god or rather Mother Nature or just plain fracking good old Nature or rather nature). (Check out my suave moves and running pace of about 1 cm per hour, and boasting about how running demands ‘no technique’ to justify my own wobblycrappy technique or lack thereof). Live travelled 10 hours both ways from Wales, via train, to be in London… A trip I may take to see her work. And to see the work of one of her profs, Dr Andrew Filmer, who researches performativity and running  – and walks the talk or rather runs the talk by making/co-ercing/forcing his students to run. Nice. I must rope him in for my New Interdisciplinary Research School Of Running that I am setting up in Runswick Bay (grand opening: 2084).