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EVERYDAY VENGEANCE Al Seed returns to the stage with a stripped back solo performance marrying the personal and theatrical

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R evenge has a healthy theatrical history: liked nothing more than on-stage justified carnage, and even Hamlet covers the ground. Al Seed might be concentrating on its more mundane forms, but Everyday Vengeance marks his return to the stage after a period as one of the forces behind Conflux, curators of the Surge festival. ‘I have been operating from the shadows for four years which has been very satisfying,’ Seed admits. ‘I have a Russian friend who said that you can only cross the line from artist to producer once: so this is an attempt to prove that wrong.’

Known as the clown prince of darkness, Seed’s best-remembered works, like The Factory, captured a sense of absurd menace and introduced a generation of theatre audiences to an uncompromising and theatre. expressive

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For Everyday Vengeance, Seed is combining his skills.

the personal with ‘I have quite deliberately decided to make a piece that is both physical theatre and storytelling. It is a stylistic mash-up: different story threads have different styles,’ he says. And although this is a solo performance, Seed balances the theatrical. ‘There is a miniature revenge tragedy contained within the show,’ he notes. Although Conflux have a reputation for large scale performance, Seed is getting back to basics no props, no big set, just one man, his body and a series of stories. More than just the return of a much-missed performer, it is a reminder that even the minimal can be stunningly theatrical. (Gareth K Vile)

Tron, Glasgow, Thu 25–Sun 28 Jul.

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