YOUR SEXTS ARE SHIT: OLDER BETTER LETTERS - NORTHAMPTON
We go to Northampton! Academy of Music. I am thrilled because it seems to be a town with lots of Queer Women.
SAT 3rd MARCH 7.30
We go to Northampton! Academy of Music. I am thrilled because it seems to be a town with lots of Queer Women.
SAT 3rd MARCH 7.30
29th Feb at 7.30, Middlebury College, Vermont
I’m off to the US again!
Feb 22nd and 23rd at Williams College, Massachusetts
Before sexts there were hand-written letters. And loads of them were proper filthy. With the help of the internet, friends and two sexologists, Rachel has unearthed missives dating back centuries. Triangulating these sex and love letters of long dead artists with contemporary sexts and a meditation on the construction of the queer female body, the show is a tender and surprising hour that asks – how do we write ourselves and for whom?
Come! Take pleasure in James Joyce’s passion for arse, find out who sneaked her gay lover into the White House, hear from Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Mozart and bear witness to the best/worst sexts ever sent.
Hullo folks! Your Sexts is back in London for a one night only post-Valentine intervention.
And it’s BSL Interpreted by the brilliant Sue Maclaine.
7.30 pm 15th FEB at THE LONDON LIBRARY.
Here is Sue with a BSL Intro to the show below: Hello, I am a sign language interpreter. My name is Sue MacLaine. I interpret for performance, not just standing on the side of the stage but interactively. There is a performance, full of funny, called “Your Sexts Are Shit”. Sexts are messages sent to girlfriend, boyfriend or anyone that has sexual content, are making suggestions to people that you want to connect with. In the past people wrote letters and the performance contrasts letters written by Mozart, the composer, James Joyce famous Irish author and the female artist Frida Kahlo along with others. There is comparison of the historical letters and modern Sexts of today. The performance is really funny, cheeky, rude with strong sexual content. The performance takes place in London, at a place called London Library. It is on February 15th starting 7.30pm. The London Library is located in St James Square. Hope you can come and see myself and Rachel Mars playing about on stage together.
FORGE is coming to Bristol - Unit 15, Sussex Street BS2 0RA
In 2014 the 100kg iron 'welcome' gate was stolen from Dachau concentration camp. A local blacksmith forged a replica. It was exactly like the original. Almost.
Over three days artist Rachel Mars invites you to bear witness as she welds together another copy of the gate accompanied by Bristol-based sound artist Dinah Mullen who creates a live sound-scape in conversation with the action.
This impactful performance installation asks questions about memorials and provides a space to think about who is controlling narratives of past atrocities. An act of repetition and repair, FORGE asks what it is to preserve a site of collective trauma.
Tickets are priced on a Pay What You Can basis, with a minimum price of £1 and a recommended price of £12.
Tickets HERE
In 2014 the 100kg iron 'welcome' gate was stolen from Dachau concentration camp. A local blacksmith forged a replica. It was exactly like the original. Almost.
Over four days artist Rachel Mars invites you to bear witness as she welds together another copy of the gate. This impactful performance installation asks questions about memorials and tackles what it is to preserve a site of collective trauma.
Sound Designer Dinah Mullen creates a live soundtrack, orchestrating an atmospheric sound-world that includes previously recorded metal work, bespoke compositions and a library of Memorial Silences.
TICKETS HERE
Hi Sweet Ones! I’m back Live!
Before sexts there were hand-written letters. And loads of them were proper filthy. With the help of the internet, friends and two sexologists, Rachel has unearthed missives dating back centuries. Triangulating these sex and love letters of long dead artists with contemporary sexts and a meditation on the construction of the queer female body, the show is a tender and surprising hour that asks – how do we write ourselves and for whom?
Come! Take pleasure in James Joyce’s passion for arse, find out who sneaked her gay lover into the White House, hear from Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Mozart and bear witness to the best/worst sexts ever sent.
SADLY and CLEARLY THIS IS POSTPONED.
Your Sexts Are Shit comes to BRIGHTON FESTIVAL
With a BSL show on May 1th.
Tickets HERE
A public work in progress or first ideas and images for my new performance FORGE about trauma tourism, memorial architecture and decay. Part of the Barbican Open Lab programme.
INFO AND TICKETS:
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2020/event/open-lab-showcase-forge
YOUR SEXTS ARE SHIT : OLDER BETTER LETTERS comes to Amata - Falmouth
Friday November 29th at 8pm
YOUR SEXTS ARE SHIT : OLDER BETTER LETTERS - The House, Plymouth
Wednesday November 27th at 7.30pm
TICKETS:
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/performance-your-sexts-are-shit-older-better-letters
A new show by Greg Wohead and myself at Ovalhouse, London.
In the Shawshank Redemption, wrongly convicted Andy Dufresne spends years digging a tunnel to freedom from his prison cell. He hides his work under a large picture of Rita Hayworth. On the day of his escape, Andy crawls his way towards the outside world and perfectly replaces the poster on the wall to mask his escape route. We’re so emotionally satisfied when Andy rips off his prison uniform in the rain that we forget to ask how he could possibly have replaced the poster from inside the tunnel.
But how *could* he possibly have replaced the poster from inside the tunnel?
What holes are we prepared to overlook in order to stay comfortable?
Following our cult hit Story #1, Gaping Hole (Story #3) is the third part in a non-linear trilogy about radical narrative.
YOUR SEXTS ARE SHIT : OLDER BETTER LETTERS comes to Birmingham Literature Festival
Friday October 11th at 8pm - The Studio, The REP.
TICKETS
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bhamlitfest/your-sexts-are-shit-older-better-letters/e-rjdkom
YOUR SEXTS ARE SHIT : OLDER BETTER LETTERS comes to South Street, Reading
Wednesday 2nd Oct at 8pm
BSL Interpreted Show.
TICKETS
https://www.readingarts.com/south-street/whats-on/your-sexts-are-shit-older-better-letters
YOUR SEXTS ARE SHIT : OLDER BETTER LETTERS comes to Cambridge Junction
Thursday 26th Sept at 7.30 - pay what you can
TICKETS
https://www.junction.co.uk/your-sexts-are-shit-older-better-letters
YOUR SEXTS ARE SHIT : OLDER BETTER LETTERS
Summerhall
13th - 25th August at 11.30am
TICKETS HERE
Our Carnal Hearts in Carlow
Info and Tickets will be HERE
Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters
A show that unearths the love and sex letters of old.
TIckets will be HERE
Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters
A show that unearths the love and sex letters of old.
TICKETS HERE
OUR CARNAL HEARTS - BREWERY ARTS CENTRE, KENDAL
https://www.breweryarts.co.uk/event/rachel-mars-carnal-hearts/
21st November - Pay What you Decide
OUR CARNAL HEARTS at The Showroom Chichester
Thursday 11th October at 7.30pm
Tickets: http://theshowroomchichester.co.uk/whats-on/rachel-mars/
OUR CARNAL HEARTS at the Brisbane Festival
Tickets: https://www.brisbanefestival.com.au/whats-on/our-carnal-hearts
Wednesday 26th September at 7pm
Thursday 27th September at 7pm
Friday 28th September at 7pm and 9pm
Saturday 29h September at 4.15pm
OUR CARNAL HEARTS at the Melbourne Fringe
Tickets at : https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/our-carnal-hearts/
Thursday 20 September - 8:30PM
Friday 21 September -8:30PM
Saturday 22 September -2:00PM, 8:30PM
Sunday 23 September -5:00PM
OUR CARNAL HEARTS at On The Boards, Seattle
Tickets for non subscribers available soon at https://www.ontheboards.org/1819-season
Thurs 13th September at 8pm
Fri 14th September at 8pm
Sat 15th September at 3pm and 8pm
Sunday 16th September at 5pm
Your Sexts Are Shit returns to London - This time at BAC.
For tickets:
https://www.bac.org.uk/content/45015/whats_on/whats_on/shows/your_sexts_are_shit_older_better_letters
OUR CARNAL HEARTS travels to the stunning Vooruit in Gent to be part of JUST A GOOD PROGRAM
TICKETS HERE.
YOUR SEXTS ARE SHIT: OLDER BETTER LETTERS is back in London and more candid then ever.
Mars.tarrab present their new work ROLLER, winner of the 2017 Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award.
Tickets and info HERE