Richard Staplehurst: notebook for a performing artist.
I am a Free Lance Performer, currently a 3rd year Performing Arts BA (Hons) student at Chichester University (West Sussex) within the Visual & Performance Arts department.My principal performance interests lie in the areas of verbatim and poststructural performance and the autobiographical.
I have just performed a new poststructrual Piece called BREAKING NEWS with Vague At Best theatre colective.
Breaking News is a performance which presents a anarchistic aproach to a performance based around of political satire. It is a poststructural representation of the portrayal of today’s Media and political stance in Britain. Inspired by a cultural Marxism approach Breaking News deconstructs the ideals of political correctness in a world of apathy, capitalism and conspiracies.Breaking News intertextualised real news with controversial ‘news reports’ and radio shows, an office chair dance and the rape of a teddy bear. Breaking News challenges the public’s perception of information.It was performed at The ShowRoom Theatre in Chichester,west Sussex.
I am a active member of BOOTWORKS Theatre Collective (www.bootworkstheatre.co.uk) and In the past year I have toured in Liverpool(Metal),Brighton Findge Festival,Glastonbury Festival,and Surrey with with a surrealist performance named Un Boite Andalou.
Watch It Here: http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/bootworkstheatre/
I have written a new two hander (short) play of 15 pages it is called ‘CANNED’ (copies avalibale on request).
I am currently working on A Solo Performance incorperating the theories of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ‘The Übermensch’ (The Super Man) & Superman™.
