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Watching Plays in The Old Vic

This is Edward Rapley, he is part of residence and by his own admission ‘I make autobiographical solo performances’ (this I got from the residence site; I’d not asked him to describe his work, perhaps I should have done, but I asked google and google knows everything.

I went to see his show ‘ Who Knows Where’ which was part of this years Mayfest performances I did happen to come across a free ticket what with being part of BEV and helping out and that.

So, the play was about death and it started out with what Ed said (at the end of the performance) was a visual metaphor about birth – Ed had squeaky shoes and the beginning remind me a lot of Tom Wainwright’s play “Pedestrian” that I did go and see a few months ago.

The performance was more or less Ed lamenting and discussing his views and experiences of death. He had a bucket and picked out a piece of paper which told him what to do. Such as spit paint down some paper; a spider graph of what was important and a collection of objects that reminded him of dead people to put on his window sill. I did this once, in my house in uni – but it was on a wall.

Some bits of the performance were really funny and I kind of heckled a bit – not in a bad way – but because it felt like he was trying to engage the audience in conversation but in hind sight I think it was probably more rhetorical.

The piece was a third in the series and after I had seen it I wished I had gotten to see them all. But all in all I did enjoy it and it was good.

//bentleg