Dates: Sun 15th Oct 2023

Times: Doors open @ 17:30
18:00 - 18:45 (45 mins)

Location: Gallery Studio Theatre

Tickets: £10/£7 concs.

SPILL’s Artistic Director Robin Deacon presents a lecture-style performance especially written for SPILL 2023. Part of Screen Memories, a series of monologues recounting a childhood of watching public service television, here Robin turns his attention to the question of representation.

Using storytelling and sampled footage, he pieces together half-remembered recollections of presenter Floella Benjamin on the children’s TV show, Play School. In this performance, Robin asks what it really means to be represented. Is there a tension between the desire to be part of a collective and the sense of oneself as an individual? When does representation matter, and when might it not?

MORE ABOUT ROBIN DEACON:

Robin Deacon has worked in performance, video and writing since the mid 1990s. His work is known for its innovative approach to the lecture as an art form. Robin’s interest in storytelling and narrative is reflected in his approach to programming and curation at SPILL, where he emphasises unusual perspectives and untold histories.

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