Action Hero are definitely not making a scene.
Lost inside a recurring nightmare, a reluctant actor returns to the stage. In an attempt to conquer an 8-year period of intense stage fright - and inside a dream-world inhabited by the phantoms of his disapproving ancestors - he is replaying his own autobiography and starting to lose the plot.
But he’s not gonna make a big song and dance about it. Instead, he’s determined to keep the show on the road, re-writing his anxiety dreams live on stage in the hope of banishing the ghosts of performances past.
A Song and Dance is an absurdist nightmare of a show about masking, performing and ‘acting the part.’
Lost inside a recurring nightmare, a reluctant actor returns to the stage. In an attempt to conquer an 8-year period of intense stage fright - and inside a dream-world inhabited by the phantoms of his disapproving ancestors - he is replaying his own autobiography and starting to lose the plot.
But he’s not gonna make a big song and dance about it. Instead, he’s determined to keep the show on the road, re-writing his anxiety dreams live on stage in the hope of banishing the ghosts of performances past.
A Song and Dance is an absurdist nightmare of a show about masking, performing and ‘acting the part.’
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photos by Ana Viotti
Created by Action Hero
Text: Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse
Direction: Gemma Paintin
Performer: James Stenhouse
Dramaturgy: Deborah Pearson
Costume: Ray Gammon
Lighting Design: Alex Fernandes
Music composition: Dinah Mullen
A Song & Dance is developed and supported in its UK tour with funding from Arts Council England.
Created by Action Hero
Text: Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse
Direction: Gemma Paintin
Performer: James Stenhouse
Dramaturgy: Deborah Pearson
Costume: Ray Gammon
Lighting Design: Alex Fernandes
Music composition: Dinah Mullen
A Song & Dance is developed and supported in its UK tour with funding from Arts Council England.