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Pass the Spoon

Pass the Spoon

Shrigley's food-based opera aims for pure entertainment and succeeds

(4 stars)21 Nov 2011

The most David Shrigley has claimed of Pass the Spoon is that it's meant to be entertaining. It’s mock-modesty, but in Shrigley & Co's defence, they've succeeded. The plot, for there is one, is like a mash-up of Ready Steady Cook and Terry & June…

Pass the Spoon: The cast of characters in David Shrigley's opera

Pass the Spoon: The cast of characters in David Shrigley's opera

The artist on collaborating on the musical extravaganza

28 Oct 2011

Pass the Spoon came about because I was invited to make a project with (composer) David Fennessy and (director) Nick Bone. They wanted to collaborate with someone who would write an opera libretto. I’ve never been to an opera but I was interested…

Pass the Spoon - How David Shrigley's opera took shape

Pass the Spoon - How David Shrigley's opera took shape

Nicholas Bone on collaborating with David Shrigley and David Fennessy

21 Oct 2011

Last Monday morning I found myself standing in a rehearsal room welcoming a company that included an opera singer, four actors, a puppeteer, a composer, a visual artist and a pianist, to the first day of rehearsals for a project that began with a…

Le Weekend

Le Weekend

22 May 2008

JAZZ Tolbooth, Stirling, Fri 23–Sun 25 May With Triptych now but a memory, the eclecticism of Le Weekend is brought into even sharper focus as an important vehicle for music that eludes the attention of more conventional mainstream events. This year’s…

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