Gone to the Dogs in London
Last weekend to catch it!
Dear Ornamentalists,
I’m working on the next newsletter proper, which will go out on Sunday - but I just wanted to drop this in your inbox before we clatter full pelt into the weekend.
My show Gone to the Dogs is currently at VAULT Festival in London and this weekend is your last chance to catch it! If you are around, I would love to see you there. Stop by afterwards for a chat at the bar.
It’s been selected by theatre critic Lyn Gardner as one of her weekly VAULT picks and just picked up this lovely write up in Everything Theatre magazine.
‘pure aural beauty’
‘undeniably stunning and beautiful’
‘an hour of beautiful weirdness’
I’m already working on plans for its next steps, and more trips to London are certainly the cards. But it really would be lovely to see some friendly faces - and some new friends - there if you can make it, or know city-dwellers who might like to spend their weekend afternoon being serenaded in a tunnel under Waterloo station.
Gone to the Dogs is a fractured portrait of England told in sound and song (no talking!) by a grim faced Britannia who has seen better days - quite literally. My stage manner has been likened to that of a Brechtian Kate Bush (which I shall have carved as my epigraph) and someone seeing the show last week said it put them in mind of Jez Butterworth’s vituperative state of the nation piece Jerusalem.
So yes, there is aural beauty - but there’s also a lot of other stuff.
It does feature this song off my debut album, which is one of my favourite things I have ever written, an ode to the dying seaside town. It’s proving to be quite a crowd favourite too - I love it when songs get to have new life in new forms
THE DETAILS FOR THE RSVP:
Sat 4th & Sun 5th - 4.15pm at the Flair Ground, Waterloo Vaults
TICKETS HERE - use the code BREXITDEAL at the checkout to get 2 tickets for £22 (save £5)
That’s all for now, speak again on Sunday (before I take to the stage once more!). More on that review then, too.
Love & Blitz spirit
Ts x
