A solo show by Anna Fenemore and Pigeon Theatre
1 woman. 148 biographies. 1 show.
The Twice Removed is a new Pigeon Theatre show created and performed by Artistic Director Anna Fenemore. A solo show with three performers: Anna Fenemore as ‘Anna’; Gillian Knox as ‘The Prompt’; and Andrew Crofts as ‘The Technician’.
The show investigates the concept of a ‘biographical’ performance solo, where the lone artist presents only what other people want, and only what other people think of her, and only what or ‘who’ other people believe her to be. The show interrogates ideas around identity construction and negotiates tricky conflicting views of who ‘Anna’ might be.
Last summer I decided to make a solo show. It began badly. I didn’t know how to work alone and I stared for long periods of time at walls not knowing what to do. In a moment of terror I wrote to 148 people and asked them to tell me what to do, to tell me what solo show they would like me to make. I wrote to people in different ‘groups’: ex-students, current-students, colleagues, old-friends, new-friends, family, ex-lovers, asking them for show ideas or fragments, structures, instructions, warnings, details or broad brushstrokes. I assured them that I would not be making their show, but that I would be using the material, stories and correspondences I received to make the show. And so the project became a large-scale, long-distance collaboration between myself as solo performer/maker/subject and 148 contributors/collaborators/ biographers.
Showreel here, full show below.
