The Fat Girl Gets a Haircut and Other Stories

Synopsis

A boy collects tears in carefully labelled jam jars; a girl is horrified that her best friend thinks her father is ‘hot’; a young boy bricks himself up in a Lego tower; and a young girl wears her mother’s shoes... The Fat Girl Gets a Haircut and Other Stories is an original work created and performed by a company of teenagers, with artist/director Mark Storor. Their candid tales - on themes of love, family, sexuality and religion - are revealed in 13 explicit portraits. With a live band, animation and video in a 360 degree setting, The Fat Girl Gets a Haircut and Other Stories creates a vision of the world as experienced through the prism of teenage years.

Our Review:

3 May 2011

A boy and girl dance around each other, blindfolded, without vision but able to eventually find and discover each other in the darkness. It could be a Rob Ryan artwork. A Muslim child dances an ungainly duo with a pig as he expresses the confusion between his love for bacon and his family's religious beliefs. Another boy, bullied by his peers, is covered with ketchup from a dozen Heinz bottles, unable to stand, but his inner self survives the attack as the doll figurine attached to his stomach floats away on a paper boat. Meanwhile, a boy dressed in a paper clown outfit is swathed in water to represent all the tears he sheds for the world as it crashes on regardless.

The Fat Girl Gets a Haircut and Other Stories is a devised live art piece, the product of two years of work from a group of 12-15 year olds selected by the Roundhouse in Camden to work with performance artist Mark Storor. Portraying the inner thoughts of this motley bunch of teenagers, stories...

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