Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry is to present (L)one, a festival of “incredible, intimate and innovative solo performances celebrating the power of a single person on stage”.
Themes of power and scrutiny run throughout the series which starts this week with Charlotte Josephine’s Bitch Boxer (Tuesday and Wednesday, 23 and 24 April)—the story of a young woman fighting for her place in the ring at London 2012.
Sleepwalk Collective’s Amusements is “an unsettling and voyeuristic one-woman headphone-theatre journey into desire and pleasure” (Friday and Saturday, 26 and 27 April).
Victoria Melody places herself and her dog under the microscope of the beauty pageant in Major Tom (Monday and Tuesday, 29 and 30 April).
Sue MacLaine invites an audience to listen, draw and see beyond the naked body to the woman within in Still Life (Friday and Saturday, 3 and 4 May), an award-winning play based on the life of model and muse to Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud, Henrietta Moraes.
Valentijn Dhaenens shows how orators throughout the ages have used their words to manipulate truth to suit their own end in BigMouth (Tuesday and Wednesday, 21 and 22 May).
Daniel Bye investigates value in his performance lecture The Price of Everything (Thursday and Friday, 6 and 7 June).
Bootworks Theatre’s Predator: Finishing off what I started when I was five (Tuesday and Wednesday, 11 and 12 June) is a “charming and engaging show that invites the audience to rework the 1980s’ cult action-flick Predator using action men, puppets and remote control cars”.
Aakash Odedra’s Rising (Friday and Saturday, 14 and 15 June) is “a dance show where actions speak louder than words”.
Further information is available at www.warwickartscentre.co.uk.