“Rhythm and Blues”
Edward Thomasson
23 Mar → 24 Mar 2018

Edward Thomasson, ‘Rhythm and Blues’, 2018, one-act play, performed at West Space, Bourke Street Mall, 2018. Photography by Jacqui Shelton.

Six gay men meet to learn how to sing a song together. Eventually the parts they are learning will combine beautifully – if they can get it right. Harmonies can be tricky, and staying in time isn’t easy! As they work together they get to know each other’s ways. But will the song be a celebration of cooperation or an exercise in conformity?

Performed by six actors in an empty gallery space, Rhythm and Blues is a new one act play by artist Edward Thomasson. It is about harmony, disharmony, falling in and out of time.

Performers: Sermsah Bin Saad, Anthony Bradshaw, Tref Gare, John Molden, Kiren Van den Brandeler, Mitch Ralston.

Writer and Director: Edward Thomasson.

Music: Soosan Lolovar.

Musical Direction: Janie Gibson.

Presented by Arts House and West Space for Festival of Live Art.

Edward Thomasson makes performances, plays, videos and drawings about the complexity of social and sexual interaction. His practice is represented by Phillida Reid, London. He lives and works in London.