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The Sick of the Fringe: Care & Destruction Announce Line-Up of Performance and Discussion That Interrogates Health

by Staff Writer
March 5, 2019
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Mental, physical and societal health will be discussed, laughed at, raged at, mulled over and set to rights at a three-day festival in April to launch a year-long programme of work from unheard voices and perspectives. The Sick of the Fringe: Care & Destruction will be a mixture of premieres, established shows, work-in-progress and talks across three London venues addressing some of the most pressing issues in health and societal justice. Uncovering the stories we are not seeing, the stories we are avoiding, and the stories we don’t yet have the language to tell, it will take unhealthy care, ask where destruction is necessary, and rip it up, air the room, start again.

The festival will take place across three venues along Euston Road: Wellcome Collection, The Place and Camden People’s Theatre will be hosting some of the most ingenious writers and performers from across cabaret, comedy, theatre and dance, and speakers from the worlds of TV, poetry, art and music.

Festival highlights include:

       

* HighRise Theatre’s #UKDrillProject explores truths, perceptions, and the frenzy in the media, in politics and on the streets surrounding the controversial music genre, asking if musicality really can cause crimi-nality

* Le Gateau Chocolat’s Raw Cacao does disco, opera, musicals and pop from one end of the spectrum to the other. Featuring the Little Cocoa Orchestra, made up entirely of women of colour

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* In two shows about parenting, comedian Laurence Clark, star of BBC1’s documentary We Won’t Drop the Baby, explores his experiences of being a dad with cerebral palsy, and married couple Frauke Requardt and Daniel Oliver present Dadders, an interactive performance for five people at a time about parenting with dyspraxia and ADHD

* Director and choreographer Lanre Malaolu presents a physical theatre, hip-hop dance and spoken work fusion Elephant in the Room exploring the mental health crisis

* In As Far As Isolation Goes, live artist Tania El Khoury and musician and street artist Basel Zaraa create a piece on the mental and physical health experiences of refugees in the United Kingdom

* Gary Carter is a leading figure in the international TV format industry who career includes developing the hit series Survivor! and the international roll-out of formats such as Big Brother, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and Pop Idol. He’ll be joined by a guest to discuss the public health function of soap operas

       

A spokesperson from The Sick of the Fringe said, “The Sick of the Fringe originally looked at the body as autonomous, in 2019, we are now looking at it in dialogue with a world in pain, societal injustice and systems of oppression. Care & Destruction takes a broad reaching theme and through this programme has invited artists to look at unexpected ways of challenging and considering the negatives of care and the positives of destruction. This festival acts as a provocation, a launch of a long-term enquiry to open up and sustain conversations and introduce new critical voices. We are excited for the future and how by working to build communities around ideas we can mobilise support, resistance and understanding.”

The full festival schedule can be found here.

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