Class of '76
From: Friday, 19th February 2010
To: Friday, 19 February 2010
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Synopsis
34 kids pose for their class photo. One face in the crowd is Alexander Kelly. He likes comics, his favourite superhero is Spiderman and he wants to be a detective when he grows up. Cabaret night, 1999 Third Angel devise a 15-minute piece called Class of '76. Inspired by an old school photo, they spin the sublime, ridiculous and almost entirely made-up histories of this lost class. The storyteller is a co-artistic director Alex Kelly. Present Day Alex Kelly embarks on a unique research project, tracking down his old classmates and asking what they've been doing for the past 24 years. Part catalogue of memories, part real-life detective story, the story of Alex's search is a thought-provoking performance that investigates how even the smallest things in life have to grow up eventually.
Our Review:
20 February 2010
Class of ’76 is a gentle reflective piece that manages to avoid nostalgia whilst still invoking memories of schooldays. Those of us whose recollections of that time are largely overshadowed by feelings of horror, guilt and shame may, however, struggle to relate to the show.
But then author, co-director and performer Alexander Kelly seems to have some difficulty focussing on a central theme. The show is a revised third version, which gives one the impression of it being a permanent work in progress - or perhaps evolution would be a better word.
The show originated in 1999 when Kelly used a photograph of the children in his class at infant school as the basis for a short sketch in which he made up, for comic effect, the names and destinies of the pupils. For reasons that he still finds hard to articulate Kelly decided to do the show for real and find out what happened to his classmates.
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Third Angel (Company)
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