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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…

Magnetic North's Wild Life explores idea of modern day feral child

Magnetic North's Wild Life explores idea of modern day feral child

Playwright Pamela Carter's play inspired by ‘Wild Boy of Aveyron’

24 Feb 2011

From travelling freak shows to Channel 4’s sensationalistic Bodyshock series, voyeurism has long been a part of human nature, and the internet has only increased the opportunities for pointing and staring at those who stand out somehow from what our…

Walden

Walden

In praise of life lived at a different pace

(4 stars)20 Aug 2009

It’s the smell that hits you, as you shuffle to your seat in the sparse wooden seating bank that constitutes Walden’s only set. Fresh pine sap: an un-urban smell, from a world utterly at odds with the chattering mania of the Fringe. Magnetic North…

Walden

Walden

Magnetic North adapt Henry David Thoreau’s classic

3 Aug 2009

Henry David Thoreau’s classic experimental, unclassifiable autobiographical novel is adapted for the stage by up-and-coming young company Magnetic North. Catch it during this brief run in Glasgow before it gets absorbed into the theatrical melting pot…

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