Wunderbar Festival : : Thinking About Pocahontas and Me

Thinking About Pocahontas and Me

There’s that song in your head. Turn the camera on. History makes us all up.

A solo performance about early memories of reading; learning history from the pages of Encyclopedias, the legend of Pocahontas and the River Thames, misreading Dickens and trying to learn the first three pages of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness off by heart.

This close-up performance plays with choreography, video, writing and dramatic monologue to create a kind of storytelling, using some of the things that don’t quite fit but still seem to somehow stick.

The character swoons, eyes opening slowly, “It’s all coming back to me now... But where was I?”

Image_Manuel Vason

Part of the History Dances project, in collaboration with video artist Becky Edmunds.

Supported by Arts Council England. With thanks to Seven Stories

Information

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Thinking About Pocahontas and Me
Fiona Wright

Saturday 7th November
6pm - 7pm_Seven Stories
£6 / £4 conc.
Evening ticket
(Fiona Wright + Action Hero)
£10 / £6 conc.

Nearest Metro station is Manors

Tickets available from Wunderbar Festival Box Office at Dance City
0191 261 0505

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