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Performance

Harry Mackrill: Fabulations

  • 1h 0m

Free

Attributes

  • Duration 1h 0m
  • Type Plays/Drama

Part archival visit, research interview and creative workshop FABULATIONS is a one-to-one performance that archives the unrecorded experiences of Section 28 for LGBTQ+ youth, 1988 – 2003. Fabulations works in three stages, which audience-participants can engage with in any order.

Letters from the archive: audience-participants are invited to explore the existing archive of Section 28 through letters written to Stop the Clause Campaign (1987 – 88).

My archive: audience-participants are invited to explore artefacts from my youth which archive my experience of Section 28 (1990 – 2002)

A new archive: A new archive: audience-participants are invited to contribute to a new archive of the previously unrecorded experiences of Section 28 for LGBTQ+ youth 1988 – 2003 through an Exquisite Corpse.

Fabulations lasts the length of Beverley Knight’s 1998 album Prodigal Sista (54 minutes).

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About the artist

Harry Mackrill (he/him) is a UK-based theatre maker. He trained as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and as a irector at the Tricycle Theatre. Harry was Associate Director at Kiln Theatre (2018 – 2019) and Associate Director for the National Theatre's production of Angels in America (2017). He is co-founder of the Lot Productions.

Recent directing credits include: Led By the Child (The Lot Productions / Greenwich Film Festival Official Selection 2024); What It Means (Wilton’s Music Hall); World’s End, Boy with Beer (King’s Head Theatre).

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