ATRIUM, university of glamorgan, adam st, Cardiff wednesday 26th november 2008 8pmIn the early 20th Century William Haggar, a travelling entertainer from Essex, settled in Wales and unwittingly helped to transform live entertainment into the ‘cultural industries’. With their unique brand of ‘propositional performance’, good cop bad cop draw on Haggar’s long lost films to evoke an era of artistic and commercial experimentation. A time when films could be advertised by length in feet, a Burry Port shipwreck could pass as newsreel of the Titanic and assaulting the police could pass as a comic act. Things could have turned out very differently… ...on the premiere of phantom ride at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, January 2008 "phantom ride elevates the art of the unreliable narrator to a new level-its very unreliability is unreliable....clever, funny and filled with deadpan charm" Andrzej Lukowski, Metro "Humorous, imaginative, unpretentious and thought provoking, my kind of art." Rachel Calder, filmmaker and artist mae good cop bad cop yn gweithio yn nwy iaith Cymru, Cymraeg a Saesneg, yn ôl yr hyn sydd ei angen yn y gwaith ei hun. bydd phantom ride yn cael ei berfformio yn Saesneg yn unig tickets: £10 / £8 / £6 +44(0)29 2030 4400 www.chapter.org a Chapter commission Co-presented by Chapter and the Atrium as part of UK Performance Now |
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