23 / 09 / 17
Learning How to Die
Luca Rutherford
This is a show about death. It’s not a show about being sad. Or about grief. Or pity. This is a show about the actuality of dying and how an acceptance of mortality can drive a passion for life.
Learning How To Die asks what scares us about dying, and how can we use that fear to drive our living actions. Can we stop being scared of talking about dying?
Join Luca in Learning How to Die and it might just change the way you live.
York Theatre Royal
2:00pm
£12
Non Existent Activity
Hamish MacPherson with Paul Hughes
Doors open every 30 minutes welcoming each person for an hour long stay, hovering between a hangout, a one-to-one performance, and the last place on earth.
Guests becomes hosts, for guests who become hosts, in a three hour chain of holding and caring.Nothing needs to happen. But something certainly will.
The work involves lying (or sitting if this is not possible), stillness and touch. Participants will be encouraged to remain in control of their experience including levels of contact.
The venue is wheelchair accessible and there are accessible toilets on site.
York St John University - Quad South Hall
3:00pm -6:00pm
FREE - Booking Essential
Everything You Ever Wanted to Say But Didn’t - Part 1
Rhiannon Armstrong
Ever had a moment in your life when you wanted to say something, but didn’t?
The International Archive of Things Left Unsaid is an evolving collection of anonymous testimonies gathered from members of the public.
You are invited to experience one of these testimonies in this short, intimate performance.
York St John University - Quad South Hall
3:00pm - 6:00pm
FREE - Sign up on the day
In The Shadow Of The Penis
Christopher Owen
In The Shadow Of The Penis is a live performance looking at the male relationship to the penis and the impact of this relationship on mental health and the wider male experience.
Using movement and voice to initiate candid and honest interactions between men, the work aims to depict male genitalia outside of power and humilation narratives.
York St John University - Dance Studio
4:00pm
FREE - Booking essential
Castle Rock
Massive Owl
As flashing neon lights descend upon the tracks, a boxing-gloved boy with a death wish comes head to head with a white suited locomotive and a deer in black patent stilettos.
Castle Rock is a new story inspired by three of the voiceless characters in Stephen King’s novella The Body and its 1986 cult film adaptation, Stand By Me.
Expect distorted sound, movement and projection as Massive Owl contort the book’s characters and twist the film’s soundtrack into a reimagined story about loss and acceptance.
Welcome to Castle Rock…
York Theatre Royal
6:30pm
£12