Join us for our next Stanley Picker Gallery Friday Night Late to see a new scenes from “The Participation Waltz”, collectively created and performed by BA Drama and Dance students in collaboration with Dr Caoimhe Mader McGuinness and Sophie Huckfield.
Returning by popular demand is Ian Saville, former member of Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre and the world’s leading socialist magician (possibly the only one).
Over five weeks, Dr Caoimhe Mader McGuinness and Sophie Huckfield will work in the gallery with Performing Arts students at Kingston University to deconstruct the 1976 play the ”The Participation Waltz”. Drawing on the exhibition’s installation, artworks and archival materials, students explore the connections between workers’ theatre and contemporary questions of work, demilitarisation, democracy and education.
Experimenting with agit-prop, physical theatre, clowning and site-responsive performance, students move between performer, participant and audience to test new possibilities for collective action, political imagination and performance.
Join us for an evening of live performance, socialist magic and theatrical experimentation.
With Alex Butler, Keilana Reid, Julia Seraglia, Saad Aajakia, Morgan Aspinall, Moya Brits, Cassie Duhig, Chelsie Francis, Alexander Hall, Harshdeep Heer, Matt Hicks, Eloise Kennedy, Duya Ribeiro, Ruben Sahota, William Sands, Zac Swadling, Dillana Tediek, Lawrence Warner, Holly Greenwood, Michael Morortare. and special guest Ian Saville.
Rehearsals will be taking place on the following Thursday afternoons:
15 October 2-4pm
22 October 2-4pm with a Theatre of the Oppressed workshop from Naresh Kaushal from Rainbow of Desire.
12 November 2-4pm
19 November 2-4pm
26th November 2-4pm.
Public are welcome to visit during these times however the gallery will be in use with the performance group Alternative Production(s) and Kingston School of Performing Arts.
Special Thanks to Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre for permission to work with the play.