Off to teach a visiting lecture/seminar with my mate Rebecca Louise Collins on the MA in Performing Arts Practices and Visual Cultures at the University of Alcalá (Madrid) and Reina Sofia Museum!
Read more about the program HERE !
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT EVE SPEAKS
"...Eve (of Garden of Eden and Original Sin fame) offered one-to-one confessionals in a dimly lit corner of the bar, asking visitors about their regrets and guilty secrets in exchange for apples with “embrace original sin” and her autograph written on their skins. Ali Matthews, aka The Bitchuationist, made the process of seducing her visitors into forgiving our own (and her) sins thoroughly engaging, and played neatly on the idea that in the modern world, the fallen woman possesses a power and appeal that would – were the Bible ever replayed across current media formats – ensure Eve herself a long career of personal appearances, celebrity interviews and opportunistic autobiographies, biopics and record contracts fit to make the likes of Madonna blush at the opportunism...in the one-to-one context of a seemingly casual exchange across a bar Matthews makes all this very convincing"
- Wayne Burrows, Hatch Nottingham
"To get to the source of gender unbalance you might have to go all the way back to the Book of Genesis, which Ali Matthews has done in her sassy cabaret Eve Speaks (pictured below). "If Eve never came back to Adam, got the hell out of Eden and took up waitressing, and raised a snake baby on her own - I wonder what stories that would bring", she coos while gently strumming a ukulele. For all his handsome attributes, Adam is ultimately incompetent, and now the seductive serpent seems to have caught desiring Eve's attention. Blasphemous perhaps but Matthews's voice is heavenly, her performance daring and relevant as, when a Dalek-voiced God insists she disclose her sexual intimacies, a chord is struck with recent controversies of male control over female bodies."
- Musings in Intermissions blog (Ireland)
"in tune with the moment" - Peter Crawley (Irish Times)
EVE SPEAKS @ PROJECT ARTS CENTRE
EVE SPEAKS will be performed on January 12 > INFO and TICKETS
as part of THE THEATRE MACHINE TURNS YOU ON: Vol 3 “A revolution is a change of mind”
at Project Arts Centre (Dublin, Ireland).
Proudly curated and co-produced by THEATREclub & Project Arts Centre.
THEATREclub are supported by Dublin City Council and Project Arts Centre.
THEATREclub are part of Project Catalyst, an initiative of Project Arts Centre
Hatch MASS, The Theatre Machine Turns You On and more
Greetings, creatures! I'm off tomorrow for mischief at Hatch MASS (Nottingham), which "invited 11 performance artists/companies to show work that teeter on
the edge, cross over or fall right into the cracks between disciplines." I'm squished between the subway rails in that metaphor, methinks.
Friday, I'm over to Dublin for workshops in preparation for the amazing joint Project Arts Centre and Theatre Club (Ireland) festival The Theatre Machine Turns You On. My own show is on Jan. 12, and tickets can be booked HERE. Why not book to see a few other strange and wonderful shows as well? I'm really excited to be programmed alongside some fab artists and spend some great time developing the work smack dab in Temple Bar before and after Christmas.
Friday, I'm over to Dublin for workshops in preparation for the amazing joint Project Arts Centre and Theatre Club (Ireland) festival The Theatre Machine Turns You On. My own show is on Jan. 12, and tickets can be booked HERE. Why not book to see a few other strange and wonderful shows as well? I'm really excited to be programmed alongside some fab artists and spend some great time developing the work smack dab in Temple Bar before and after Christmas.
HATCH - 12/12 (Nottingham)
Come ring in the Christmas spirit in Nottingham, yo. Sherwood Forest is only a stone's throw away, and I for one will be donning my nun's habit and dancing the Maid Marian through the wooded paths. What?
HATCH: Mass is a night of performances and playful interventions my artists and companies from all over Britain. Super psyched about Jo Bannon's Exposure specifically - I saw this one-on-one by the Bristol-based performer a few months ago and it was a beautiful and contemplative experience. I'll be doing one-on-one confessionals in the lobby around the topic of original sin, and I'll also be doing a full wham-bam of the EVE SPEAKS show.
Read more about the upcoming programme here.
HATCH: Mass is a night of performances and playful interventions my artists and companies from all over Britain. Super psyched about Jo Bannon's Exposure specifically - I saw this one-on-one by the Bristol-based performer a few months ago and it was a beautiful and contemplative experience. I'll be doing one-on-one confessionals in the lobby around the topic of original sin, and I'll also be doing a full wham-bam of the EVE SPEAKS show.
Read more about the upcoming programme here.
UPCOMING DATES
Nov. 25 - EVE SPEAKS @ Bawdsville Burlesque (Kingston, London)
Dec. 1 - LEDA AND STRAUSS-KAHN (work-in-progress) - Aberystwyth Storytelling Festival @ The Box
Dec. 12 - EVE SPEAKS + one-on-one confessionals - HATCH @Spanky Van Dykes (Nottingham)
Jan. 12 - EVE SPEAKS, supported artist as part of "The Theatre Machine Turns You On" @ Projects Arts Centre (Dublin, Ireland)
Jan. 25 - Leads vocals with gypsy jazz/chanson outfit HotClub d'Aber @ Red Dragon Theatre (Barmouth, Wales)
Feb. 1 - Cabaret @ Bristol Storytelling Festival (The Canteen/Hamilton House, Bristol)
Dec. 1 - LEDA AND STRAUSS-KAHN (work-in-progress) - Aberystwyth Storytelling Festival @ The Box
Dec. 12 - EVE SPEAKS + one-on-one confessionals - HATCH @Spanky Van Dykes (Nottingham)
Jan. 12 - EVE SPEAKS, supported artist as part of "The Theatre Machine Turns You On" @ Projects Arts Centre (Dublin, Ireland)
Jan. 25 - Leads vocals with gypsy jazz/chanson outfit HotClub d'Aber @ Red Dragon Theatre (Barmouth, Wales)
Feb. 1 - Cabaret @ Bristol Storytelling Festival (The Canteen/Hamilton House, Bristol)
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