Thinking About Pocahontas and Me (Third Version) is a solo about remembering images from fever dreams and early memories of reading as if they were stored in your body like keys to the secrets of time travel - learning history from the pages of Encyclopedias, the legend of Pocahontas and the River Thames, misreading Dickens and trying to learn the first three pages of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
This close-up performance plays with choreography, video, writing and dramatic monologue to create a kind of storytelling, using some of the things that don’t quite fit but still seem to somehow stick.
7th November 2009. 6pm
Seven Stories, Centre for Children’s Books, Newcastle upon Tyne,
presented as part of the Wunderbar Festival.
The character swoons, eyes opening slowly, “It’s all coming back to me now... But where was I?”
There’s that song in your head. Turn the camera on. History makes us all up.
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