Liquid Gold by Astro-Zenica at Hackney Showroom HQ
November 2023
A show about post-truth in the age of late-capitalism, neo-fascism, online Spiritual Gurus and the increasing cult-like tendencies of followers in the digital age. Created from a working class perspective from a queer person raised within a Catholic culture, the show aims to place the audience as participant, making choices in order to question agency, an experiential and immersive introduction to the communities and cultures thriving within the contemporary landscape we’re currently living in with its extreme focus on consumerism, competition and servitude to a higher power. How much control do we truly have in our lives and how much is dictated to us by fake news, algorithms and political double think?
This live & digital performance has been made possible thanks to funding and and in-kind residency support from Arts Council England, Cambridge Junction, Wysing Arts Centre, Club Urania, Artspace Lifespace, Creative Youth Network, and Hackney Showroom.
Various artists have supported with dramaturgy and consultancy throughout the process including artists Deanna Fleysher, Kim Noble, Alex Podger, Travis Alabanza, Tammy Reynolds, Meg Hogdson and Eleanor Wicks.
Video credits:
Artistic Director & Producer: James Crawley/ Astro-Zenica
Assistant Producer: Camilla Mason
Video Director & Editor: Ben Wilson
Stylist/ Fashion Direction & Photography: Griff Townsend
Make Up Artist: Panda Cooper
Sound design: Jacob Peters
Costume Designer: Phoebe Beckett
Creative Consultancy: Travis Alabanza
Switchboard by Astro-Zenica at Bristol Old Vic
A show about class, violence, access, visibility, hedonism, sexual freedom and community.
Written and performed by Astro-Zenica
Sound Design: Freddie Lewis
Dramaturgy: Riss Obolensky
Movement: Ellie Bartram
Switchboard by Astro-Zenica at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
An LGBTQ History Month Special at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Tuesday 14th February 2023
Throat parched: hand trembling: choice made. They reach for the phone: a piercing ring: the wait unending. Deep inhale: a silent breath: the whole world pauses just for a moment.
“Hello? Is anybody there...? Are you a
....are you a gay person? I've never spoken to someone who's gay before….”
A Vaccine Full Of Astro-Zenica
29th -30th June 2022
Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
Have You Seen The Moddywomple?
Summer 2020
Bath Fringe
Bobby Tromple begins his quest to find the Moddywomple, his most prized and treasured possession as an inventor. When she sprang to life she sang the most gorgeous song he ever heard before flying off out of the window. Now Bobby fears he will never be connected with the sound of that song again, the loss of that voice…
Neighbours: The War of The Rose.
Summer 2019
Bath Fringe, NeW Works Work site specific commission.
Best friends, cruelly severed in their love for one another by the beauty of a seductive Rose growing in the middle of the field between their houses. Once an open field their desire to have the rose on their side of the field inspires a mutual passion for fencing. Boarders are drawn, ancestry erased, news is faked. Food, both is thrown and withheld, ownership of land and nature claimed and destroyed in their greedy desire to posess the natural resource that once shared must now be owned for it cannot be owend by the “other.” Whose side of the fence will the Rose live on? An absudrist clown piece inspired by Norman Mclarren’s Academy Ward Winning short film, Neighbours, 1952. By Daft Blemish Productions, starring James Crawley and Joe Dorso.
