Opposition
From: Tuesday, 6th November 2012
To: Saturday, 17 November 2012
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Synopsis
In her new solo show Opposition, vocal gymnast and word cutter-upper extraordinaire Hannah Silva uses multiple art forms to dissect and parody political language, revealing the meaning, music and meaninglessness beneath the rhetoric of today's (big?) society. The audience pick up their name badges and become delegates at a political conference remixed as David Cameron's Big Society speech, the Weather, the News, slang, live Twitter feeds and Winston Churchill all get cut up and recomposed using a loop pedal, a tin whistle, and her extraordinary vocal gymnastics.
Our Review:
9 November 2012
Bish. Bash. Bosh. Not the words one usually hears in a political speech, but Hannah Silva combines gibberish with political rhetoric in her dynamic satire. From Churchill to Cameron, Silva dissects the words of orators past and present to show how meaning often sits like a haze amongst the embellished, eloquent expressions delivered by the political elite.
In this hour long production, the audience form a group of delegates and participation is mandatory (come prepared to chant), as Silva delivers her own manifesto with boundless energy. Dressed in a grey suit and pink tie, she plucks political speeches from the past and interjects them with jargon, buzz words, repetition and exaggerated movement.
Statistics and figures on the economy are delivered in the same tone and manner as the weather, and Twitter obscures meaning further. Silva's delivery is unnatural and robotic. And as her words repeat on a loop in the background - much like a record caught on a single, unre...
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