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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“JOYFUL AND MELANCHOLIC, AND CREEPS UP ON YOU EMOTIONALLY- ITS HARD TO PINPOINT EXACTLY WHEN IT GAINS THE WEIGHT OF PROFUNDITY”
Exeunt Magazine“maybe the most life affirming show i’ve ever seen”
Audience member“A slapstick reverie on history, class, masculinity and ghosts”
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photos by Ruby Turner Photography
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.