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"London Word Festival presents Stuart Silver: You Look Like Ants + Nathan Penlington: Uri & Me"
15th March 2010 - 8pm
Price: £9 adv £11 door
Venue: Main House
Company: You Look Like Ants
Perrier Award-winning comedian Stuart Silver’s premiers his new solo show. You Look Like Ants is a show about the consequences of worshiping star rating systems; and about Sharon Davies MBE. It’s a show about the people that inspired us in our youth; the role models and heroes who accompany us through life. In Stuart’s signature conversational monologue style, he asks what happens when they grow old and start to fall apart? How do we pick up the pieces of our broken idols?
An interweaving, resonating series of theories and scenarios, sad landscapes and incidental ukulele that asks ‘how do we know if we’re spending our time on earth wisely?’
Stuart Silver is a writer and performer who works across theatre and gallery venues, public venues, television, radio, written work and in educational contexts. He is the co-founder of (nobleandsilver), a Perrier award winning multimedia, comic performance group. His live work has seen him appear at Latitude Festival, Summer Sundae, Battersea Arts Centre, the Barbican, The Soho Theatre and BBC Electric Proms. Stuart has stared onscreen in The Mighty Boosh, Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place and the (nobleandsilver) Channel 4 Special.
Following the huge success of the Inspired by Uri range of collectables, poet-magician Nathan Penlington presents a brand new show about the man who became an international superstar through his ability to bend spoons with the aid of his mind.
Uri and Me looks behind the cultural icon that we all know and love, to reveal the subtle, complex, and caring nature that has created a boardgame, a folding bike, a range of porcelain plates, over fourteen books, a line of jewellery produced exclusively for QVC, a collection of psychically energised teddy bears, and a pop album.
“If I could write a book exposing myself as a fraud and a charlatan I would readily do so…but unfortunately I cannot do this because the things that have happened to me…are real”, Uri wrote in the introduction to his 1987 book Fortune Secrets – telepathy, clairvoyance, ESP, dowsing for oil, bending metal – Uri and Me will make those things real for you too.
If you’ve never wondered what Uri has been up to since 1971, then this isn’t the show for you.
You Look Like Ants is funded by Arts Council England
www.astuartsilver.com www.myspace.com/nathanpenlington
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