Maggie Tran & Resistance Gallery present
in association with Switch performance
A Ten-in-One act cabaret-art-sideshow
The Great Orchidaceous Travesty
Thursdays 2nd 9th & 16th April - each night different acts
8pm - 11:30pm
See the mysterious "cute-butch blossom"
& behold the terrifying giant bear make its keeper dance!
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Join in The Flamingo Dance
And witness the extraordinary Cesabesa performing the gravity-defying low-wire
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Theatrical performances, interactions and demonstrations of
Skill and Prowess by
The Muffia &
Rob Gawthrop
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Subterranean improvisations and delightfully dark divertissement
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Also featuring Gobshyte Lowery & His Cardiac Arrest Team
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Musical accompaniment and unique acts
provided by Radio Darling
with special rock and roll selections on 45 til late
courtesy of whennomeansyes
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HOT TICKETS! GROWL!
Available £7.77 adv http://www.wegottickets.com/f/631
£10 on the door
An adhoc live performancey, vaudevilley, circusy, musically, cabareteski, burlesqski, thingymajig kind of night - showcasing and celebratory of local talent, amateur enthusiasm, small things and the unspectacular. Combining alternative dance, theatre, video, live art, poetry and music. Producer Maggie Tran weaves a magical and bizarre evening celebrating the extra ordinary, the extra exotic and the downright dark and leery.
Just what is the secret behind The Great Orchidaceous Travesty?
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LINE UP - a different mouthful, every time!
Matthew Cowan - 2nd & 16th April
The Bear and the Dancing Man
& The Morris Bell Man
Graeme Walker - 2nd, 9th & 16th April
The "Cute Butch Blossom"
The Muffia - 9th April
'Tight Women' - A chat show with a twist -a comedy performed by two women discussing topical issues informed by media debates, popular television and radio. The characters are a reflection of the fragmented and fractured identities we have absorbed and reconstructed growing up as young women in the UK. This show is a mixture between a daytime chat show and stand up comedy. We are tight...very tight...
http://www.themuffia.co.uk/
Katie O'Brien - 2nd & 16th April
An act with a puppet
Kate Bowtell - 9th April
Twisted table dancers - an act that may consist of false starts, bad music and grimaces.
Radio Darling - 2nd, 9th & 16th April
"some of the members of the band Radio Darling (post mashup theatrical popcore) will be playing songs and games"
http://profile.myspace.com/
Hubert Spall - 2nd, 9th & 16th April
Composer and improviser. Various musical contributions
http://www.myspace.com/
http://www.myspace.com/
http://www.myspace.com/
Tom McDonnell - 2nd & 9th April
Tom McDonnell wants to be your musical friend. He sings pleasant toe-tapping pastorals about line managing Indiana Jones and self aware pandas. Facial expressions guaranteed. Tom is a tragedian a sit down as opposed to a stand up comedian. www.myspace.com/larimbombante
To check out other things that he gets up to -
Gobshyte Lowery & His Cardiac Arrest Team - 9th April
Turetic verbal unleashing and songs
http://www.myspace.com/
http://gobshytelowery.
Dave Elvis - 2nd, 9th & 16th April
A little bit of MCing and telling his fascinating life story of why he imitates Elvis
Maggie Tran - 2nd, 9th & 16th April
Understaffed, Underwhelmed, Under Everything. The Guide to Laugh Out Loud, Cry and Entertain. Trying to keep everyone happy and trying to provide table service, teaching audience members how to enjoy the show and doing entertaining performances
Cesabesa - 2nd April
Balancer. See her incredible feat - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAn7woKTGrU
Sally Child - 2nd April
Flamingo dance from the bMoSo Academy of Dance. Be inspired to wear pink!
Kert Nevenamp - 16th April
Jungle queen junkie trapped in big city dances for freedom
P.Riggler - 16th April (tbc)
Slimy tap extraordinaire
Rob Gawthrop - 2nd April
"Poplar Cinema” (16mm on DVD with Live Musical Soundtrack) including “GB Bell & Howell Practice Lacing Film”
“Music Performance Put Together on the Night” Unprepared instruments including ukelele, percussion, home-made things, amplification and gaffer tape.
The Stealth Fantasmic - 9th & 16th April
Ballad of the Skull Fairy
'A mighty rollicking fantasmagoria of murder, betrayal, skulls, squids, pride, prejudice, arm-flailing, glory, magic, evil and good, lies and truths, wonderment, excitement, and obscene poems from the West Country. Skulls or Death!’
www.myspace.com/
Helen Schoene - 2nd, 16th April
Rapunzel Party Piece
The Nomadic Academy of Fools - 16th April
In training with the world famous fool, Jonathan Kay, they have come to let loose their twisted twins. Their twins will want to play with you. Remain in the Audience and be be/a-mused. Set your own twin free and you will fly. There are no limits to imagination - the greatest nation on earth!
Natasha Navadasky - 2nd April
The Famous Russian Psychic
Carlo Jacucci - 9th April
A bit of clowning around
Nicola Singh - 2nd & 16th April
Troilus and Criseyde
My Deer, Nicola Singh, visual and sound artist, has re-appropriated a section of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde… to wail and to roar. Exploring the animal self, this performance will capture gentle, honest metamorphosis, through both musical performance and handmade arts and crafts.
Oliver Smart - 9th April
Suitcase Circus
Suitcase Circus is a highly unlikely miniature circus performed from behind a jacket and hosted by a threadbare ringmaster's sock.
Viv and Pru - 9th April
Ratpigs - A real life study originally from the mongolian pig rats of easenmalliga. These are fascinating creatures that are far removed from the western world. Not seen by many westerners in the last decade, this informative piece shows them as the beautiful, intelligent and fascinating nearly extinct species that they are.
Sarah Ruff and Ed Currie - 16th April
The amazing adventures of the Suburban poo baby - animation meets performance poetry in their bipolar night visions.
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TICKETS
Get them whilst they're hot!
Available £7.77 adv http://www.wegottickets.com/f/
£10 on the door
CONTACT
Maggie Tran
maggiesgrowontrees(at)gmail.com
www.maggietran.co.uk
DIRECTIONS
Resistance Gallery, 265 Poyser St, E2 9RF
