Show 5: 4 June 2012
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Richard Tyrone Jones has a Big Heart
Richard Tyrone Jones runs ‘Utter!’ spoken word events, MisGuided tours, schools workshops and is working on three books, as well as sometimes being a spokes-utan for ginger rights and Director of spoken word at the Edinburgh Free Fringe. Oh yeah and his solo show ‘Richard Tyrone Jones has a Big Heart’ is touring the UK & Edinburgh Fringe this year, supported by the Wellcome Trust. Not bad for a man who almost died of heart failure aged 30. The show’s ‘fascinating, sobering, hilarious, and ultimately uplifting’ according to New Scientist and he’s doing bits here tonight.
He’s @rtjpoet on twitter, www.utterspokenword.com in the blogosphere and a whore in the bathroom.
Steve Mould
Steve has appeared on Blue Peter as their resident science expert and runs the sell-out night of science and comedy, Festival of The Spoken Nerd.
Timandra Harkness
Timandra has just finished touring Your Days Are Numbered: the maths of death in the UK, Adelaide Fringe and Melbourne Comedy Festival with Matt Parker. Which meant she was probably the only comedian to be on tour while also having an article in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. She is now working on new stuff. This is some of it.
“Harkness has a deadly wit” The Scotsman
“Exponentially funny” Three Weeks
Stephe Harrop
A performance storyteller whose spare, vivid and urgent style evokes powerful visions of vanished and fantastical worlds.
At Stand Up Tragedy she’ll be sharing a bleak, brooding fairy tale with no magic and definitely no singing mice, set against the backdrop of the city of London. Find out more at www.stepheharrop.co.uk.
A regular contributor to Spark London‘s live storytelling events Radcliffe draws on his experiences of a life well lived and has managed to spectacularly overcome the twin advantages of a private education and a private income to achieve utter mediocrity, homelessness and despair far in excess of any expectations his background might suggest!
This is Radcliffe’s second appearance at Stand Up Tragedy. He first told his story in March. He’s coming back to give us the less abridged version.
The Improvised Greek Tragedy
Do you ever have disagreements with your spouse or partner? Perhaps you are envious of a colleague’s success? Or is your relationship with your close family a complex one? The Improvised Greek Tragedy takes your everyday petty troubles and presents them back to you in the form of a fully improvised Sophoclean drama in miniature, based entirely on audience suggestions and concocted on the hoof, complete with an all-singing, all-dancing Greek chorus. Featuring the hottest new improvisers from the London scene and directed by the mercurial Michael Brunström (Curt Hatred, Fingers On Buzzards, The Human Loire), the Improvised Greek Tragedy promises to be a cathartic and memorable experience.
Expect lyric poetry, masks, divine punishment, flutes, incest and a singing goat.
Marianne Morris
Marianne Morris is a poet. She is the author of Tutu Muse (Fly By Night Press, 2007) and Commitment (Critical Documents, 2011). She started Bad Press in 2002, and was the 2008 recipient of the Harper Wood Scholarship for Creative Writing. Her work will feature in Bloodaxe’s forthcoming anthology, Dear World & Everyone In It: New Poetry in the UK.
James Ross
James is an award-winning improv comedian and founder of Fat Kitten Improv (fatkittenimprov.com). He brings a spot of non-traditional stand-up to the show.
Alex Cameron
Alex Cameron is an electro folksinger in the chiptune style. He adapts old folk songs to the 1980s ZX Spectrum sound chip and plays finger style guitar over them. He sings a bit too. The sound chip he uses is the “General Instrument AY-3-8910.” It’s not had a lot of love over the years and Alex feels its time to be rediscovered as 21st Century Folk instrument has come (Although he’s mainly still waiting for someone to invent the MIDI Hurdy Gurdy). Tonight, he will be playing specially selected songs of delayed heartbreak, the standard tragedy of home and seventeen long years of alcohol abuse (and owning a Windows PC).
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