Special Event

SUNDAY 21 MARCH, 2-6pm - A PERFORMANCE EVENT BY BROWN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE THE LIVING NEWSPAPER

Brown Mountain College – artist Mel Brimfield, curator Ben Roberts and writer Sally O’Reilly – are reviving the avant-garde ethos of collaboration between artists, actors, filmmakers, political activists and comedians.

In this special performance for Wysing they will echo the fragmentary format of Zhivaia gazeta, or Living Newspaper, which began as a way to bring news stories to the illiterate Red Army soldiers of Soviet Russia and was further developed into full-scale theatrical productions that were part broadsheet, part music hall.

The Brown Mountain edition of The Living Newspaper will follow the original remit, combining public entertainment with the delivery of cultural, political and documentary information, in an event that will in turn inform, engage and provoke.

Comedy improvisation team Grand Theft Impro will present a series of satirical sketches, scenarios and improvisations on notorious and less well-known headlines from current and archaic newspapers. Comedienne Rachel Pantechnicon will deliver a series of monologues in response to readers’ letters to the newspaper’s resident agony aunt. Other events will feature advertisements and the racing pages.

The event is FREE and will begin at 2pm and end at 6pm, although it will be possible to also drop in later in the day, as individual elements of the performance start at 3pm and 4pm. Food will be provided and we are grateful to The Potton Brewery Company for sponsorship of the event with a barrel of real ale.

Please note that this event is aimed at adults.

2010 is the year of The Improbable at Wysing Arts Centre