7 Day Drunk

Performance Art Princess Bryony Kimmings is airing her super Edinburgh 2011 hit show 7 Day Drunk on a full UK tour in spring 2012 including a 15-date run at London’s Soho Theatre.

Bryony Kimmings is NOT an alcoholic … BUT admittedly has always had a rocky relationship with booze. It seems the dark stuff is intrinsically linked to her self worth and confidence as an artist and is to blame for some of her most genius as well as her most hideous creations.

Of course this is no new conundrum, for years artists have struggled with their addictions and the effects on their creativity: Truman Capote, Jackson Pollock, Dylan Thomas, Jim Morrison … all case in (coffined) point.

Created during a 7-day experiment in which Bryony was kept in varying states of scientific intoxication, the show follows the artist as she cracks open her own creative psyche with the help of neuroscientists, pharmacologists, sociologists, a film maker and a wayward team of American IT experts. Testing her limits and her own skills as an artist Bryony investigates whether alcohol really IS liked to creativity. Performed sober.

Two parts song and dance routine, one part breakdown with a twist of harsh reality, 7 Day Drunk combines Bryony’s trademark aesthetic and multi-disciplinary performance with film from documentary maker Nick Vass.

Many will know Bryony from her hit show Sex Idiot which filled the nations arts centres last year. It was also a sell out smash at the 2010 Fringe where Bryony won a Total Theatre Award. Time Out placed it in their top ten off West End shows for 2010.

Bryony Kimmings is a live artist who creates full-length performance works, cabaret acts, homemade music, audio installations and spoken word. Her work is larger than life, haphazard, loud, often dangerous, somewhat unpredictable but above all fun. She is inspired by the taboos and anomalies of British culture and her work promotes the airing of her own dirty laundry to oil conversations on seemingly difficult subjects.

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