The Sissy's Progress

The Sissy's Progress is on the 20th of Febuary at The Tom Thumb Theatre

Nando Messias was beaten up on the street in an act of homophobic hatred. After years of dreaming up his response, he presents The Sissy’s Progress, a spectacle of provocation, celebration and hyperflamboyance.

Part dance-theatre, part walking performance, The Sissy’s Progress leads its audience out onto the streets with a live marching band playing original music composed by Jordan Hunt. The Sissy’s Progress confronts the harsh contradictions of gender and violence of city life, standing up for sissies everywhere.

 ‘Queer promenade brilliance’

Ben Walters, www.nottelevision.net

‘A brave and brilliantly performed meditation on identity politics and the dynamics of power’

La JohnJoseph, boyfriendrobotique.blogspot.co.uk

Nando Messias is a Dance Art Foundation Associate Artist: Choreography. The Sissy’s Progress is produced by Dance Art Foundation and funded by the National Lottery through the Arts Council England, developed with the support of Movingeast and Artsadmin.

  

‘Full of powerful ambiguities, The Sissy’s Progress will always be remembered and treasured’

Phil Smith, Associate Professor, Plymouth University

‘Stylish subversive… winning over the audience with his dangerous and dandy sketches’

Simon Casson, Duckie 

BIOGRAPHY:

Nando Messias’ work straddles performance art, dance and theatre. Informed by queer ideology, his performances combine beautiful images with a fierce critique of gender, visibility and violence. He has performed at V&A, Hayward Gallery, Tate Tanks, Gate Theatre, Toynbee Studios, Riverside Studios, Roundhouse, Royal Vauxhall Tavern and ICA, among other spaces in Britain. He has worked internationally in France, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Portugal, Brazil, Chile, the United States and Japan.

With Biño Sauitzvy, his long-term collaborator, Nando has developed critically acclaimed dance-theatre pieces (Grand Genet: Our Lady of the Flowers, Sissy! and OH!). Nando’s solo work has been curated by the Live Art Development Agency as part of the programme Just Like a Woman (Ljubljana, New York and London). He has appeared numerous times at Duckie, having had a whole evening dedicated to his work in 2012. Nando performed in Bruce LaBruce’s theatrical production, The Bad Breast. As well as a practitioner, Nando is a movement director, choreographer and an academic of queer theory and performance.

I Am Not Myself These Days

 At the Theatre Royal on the 12 of February with a Theatre Club after
Fuel presents
I Am Not Myself These Days
Written and performed by Tom Stuart
Adapted from the autobiography by Josh Kilmer-Purcell 
Directed by Nick Bagnall
Designed by Ti Green 
Lighting Design by Guy Hoare.
A shockingly direct and heartbreakingly funny new play about love and self-discovery in the flashy, trashy New York of the 1990s.
Tom Stuart delivers a tour-de-force performance in this mesmerising one man show. Ad man by day and drag queen by night, Josh battles his own alcoholism while desperately trying to make his relationship work with Jack, a high-class rent boy addicted to crack. 
I Am Not Myself These Days is the story of one man's unconventional journey to self-acceptance that resonates far beyond the confines of the story. 
#NotMyself
Funded by Arts Council England. Supported by Shoreditch Town Hall
Reviews from the Edinburgh Fringe 2015
"A brutal story told with energy and compassion." THE STAGE ☆☆☆☆
"A mesmerising show which will smack you in the face and demand your attention." MUMBLE THEATRE ☆☆☆☆☆
"an astonishing, all-consuming performance." FEST
"Stuart is a charismatic presence and a fine actor and storyteller" THE SCOTSMAN

Margate Theatre Club @ Journey Round My Skull We would like you to join us at the The Theatre Royal, Margate, on the 19th November.

A tale of a passionate and painful love affair told by a neurosurgeon. http://kilnensemble.org/currently-touring/a-journey-round-my-skull/ A Journey Round My Skull is a beguiling and beautiful love story put under the surgeon’s knife. Told by a neurosurgeon who casts the audience as her silent patient, this show gently and playfully transports you to the streets of continental Europe, to a scrap over profiteroles, into neurosurgery and onto the tracks of a ghost train. With poetic storytelling and an extraordinary binaural sound design, A Journey Round My Skull operates on the ears as well as the heart to dissect our most intimate relationships. Inspired by the auditory hallucinations experienced by satirist Frigyes Karinthy as described in his extraordinary 1938 medical memoir. We will be meeting after the show for another Margate Theatre Club. If you came last time, please bring a friend along!  Come as you are, with your thoughts on the show, to meet with other friendly and interested people for a post-show discussion group with a difference.  Come if you hated it, come if you loved it, come if you know what it meant,come if it made no sense at all, come with hundreds of opinions, come if you have no idea what you think. Whatever you think about theatre, we'd love to have you. Snacks and nibbles provided. The show is £10, the Theatre Club afterwards is free, details and booking: https://www.eticketing.co.uk/margatewintergardens/details/event.aspx?itemref=11088 Facebook Event Twitter = @MargTheatreClub