“The Red Dagger” by Heathcote
Williams. Performance- Thursday October 6th 2016. 8pm
“The Immortalist” by Heathcote Williams. Performance- Friday Oct
7th 2016. 8pm
Two
English Language performances inspired by literary wizard Heathcote
Williams, best–selling poet, critically acclaimed playwright, award
winning author, accomplished actor and celebrated activist who
pioneered the investigational prose poem and uses this medium to tackle
a variety of political and environmental issues.
“The Red Dagger” by Heathcote Williams. Performance
Ciaran Walsh is performing “The Red Dagger” by Heathcote Williams which
tells the story of the City of London’s symbolic coat of arms, an image of the blood
red dagger that killed Wat Tyler, and which casts an eye on the City’s corruption from the
time of the Peasants’ Revolt to the present day.
“The Immortalist” by Heathcote Williams. Performance
A play on the nature of time, ageing and death: a sceptical TV reporter
interviews a 278 year old man about time itself and the alternative to death. The Immortalist
argues against passivity: “people foul up because they stay in the same place. They’ve traded
utopia for reality, they’ve traded their instinct for politics. Consuming is a substitute for
being. TV is a substitute for astral projection. Aeroplanes are a substitute for levitation”.
Cast.
The Immortalist…………… Jack Moylett
The Interviewer……………. Alison Mullin
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