PERFORMANCE ART
Schrodinger's Box
Stirling: MacRobert Arts Centre, Fri 6 Nov. Edinburgh: Assembly Rooms, Thu i2 & Fri 13 Nov.
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The second, less terrible of these experiences happened to DaVId Richmond's father, who served in the British Army during World War ll. Expecting to fight in France, he found himself \‘vhislced hush-hush to North Africa, where he was hopelessly oveidressed for the heat
This story helped inspire Bur/it Offering, a new piece about World War ll created and performed by Davrd and Jules Dorey Richmond Audiences will be reguned to hoard a bus, and be taken to an undisclosed spate, cold, darl; and industrial 'lt's that sense of not knowing, of being taken somewhere and not being in control,’ explains DaVid Richmond 'lt's a very, very small piece of how we imagine it must have felt
Burnt Offering is the fourth war performance by the Richmonds, a Glasgow-based couple whose background is in theatre and installation art Apart from their parents' wartime stories, they have drawn on their experiences during a recent 'pilgriinage’ to Auschwnz, and \‘Jirle-ranging accounts from surVivors, art hiVIsts and veterans ini ludiiig artist George Wyllie and poet Hariiish l-lenderson
'lt was one t;f the flOllllll‘d] iiioirients of this <entury,’ believes Richmond 'Tlie way people perceived the world thanr;etl diastit ally during that time'
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