Review of 'Pint, Plate, Performance' event by Simon Dale for remotegoat
"Food for body and soul" by Simon Dale for remotegoat on 02/10/09 Pint, Plate Performance at Central Station, King's Cross - all for £7? Surely not. Three Person'd God , a monologue written by Craig Jordan Baker and performed by Sophie Talbot kicked off the evening. It was a philosophical examination of a woman, an actress, playing three roles - an activist, a barren woman (her label, not mine) and an actress - which increasingly bleed into one another so that she (and we) are left increasingly uncertain as to who the real person is, where one role stops and another begins: which is reality, which is performance. Set in an unnamed dystopia, it also raises questions of state versus individual and the struggle of the human spirit in the face of sweeping state tyranny. Performed with passion and fluency, Sophie Talbot's portrayal of the woman came alive most in the third section as she shifted from the stage to the wings of the audience and delivered her third role in which all roles blurred into one, evoking a powerful sense of personal dislocation and isolation. Next up was Sally Beaumont with her piece The Other Side of Everything...
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