Stupid Women

Performer in Wendy Houstoun’s live directed improvisation - Yorkshire Dance, Nottingham Playhouse and London The Place.

 

“Combining idiocy with skill, anarchy with meaning and costumes with music, five guests of high calibre and low pay attempt the impossible and quite probably fail….. a tribute to the late, great Nigel Charnock whose piece Stupid Men irritated and annoyed most audiences who saw it; Stupid Women hopes to achieve something similar but hopes to fail”.

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Review by Tammy Facey, Weekend Notes, Leeds - "It is works of this calibre that always intrigue me; theatre and performance is meant to be a celebration of the things we experience in life, but put together in an eloquent manner, and presented in a format that a large audience can witness and share. This is exactly what Stupid Women does. Whilst I don't agree with the title, that is entirely the point."

 

Note from TC

 . . . a constant state of flux; light, sound, textures, spoken word coming in and out of focus. Wendy forever busy, manoeuvring our physical space, introducing obstacles, framing a moment, dissolving another. There is no end point, no definite path, moments unravel when you least expect it. Happy to be lost. Follow your nose,  listen with every bit of yourself, stay with something and stay with something, resist temptation to push, to force a happening, to make yourself appear ‘ interesting'. It is a letting go, a giving in, a being part of the whole, an act of generosity. Wendy orchestrating, virtual antennae reaching out to each one of us, scooping up, scattering and scurrying around the stage, throwing out suggestions in to the ether for all to hear; little gems, impulses, catalysts that change everything. It has a lot to do with trust and the will to try and find another way.