Family Hold Back British Premiere
Venue: Playroom at The Arches
A highly visual, darkly comic and very well mannered performance airing the perversities of politeness of the English dinner table where no one mentions politics and everyone knows that Trotterscliffe is pronounced Trosley. It is about being shut up, talked over and con... const... constantly interrupted. Over the three courses of the evening, a leakage of repressed bad manners begins to soak the corners of the pristine white tourniquet napkins as Paris struggles to confront what really lies underneath the perfectly laid table.
Helen Paris is a London-based artist whose work in performance, video and digital arts has been called "as smart as it is seductive". Her company, Curious, was formed in 1996 with codirector Leslie Hill and has worked and toured worldwide. Her work has been published widely, including Guerilla Performance and Multimedia (Continuum: 2001).
Research and Development supported by a One to One Bursary from London Arts and the Live Art Development Agency. With thanks to Artsadmin, London, where Helen is an Associate Artist. The production has been funded by the Arts Council of England.