Volcano's new season of short original performances, THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME, begins next week with All We Knead by Sean Wai Keung, a shared experience of stories and communal dough-making and baking.
Sean is a performance maker and poet based in Glasgow, Scotland. His work often uses food as a starting point for explorations on themes of mixedness, migration and identity.
He learned to cook and eat with his 婆婆 (grandmother), who ran a Chinese takeaway in the UK in the 1960's. While mixing flour and water into a dough he will reflect on the migration histories of his family, on his experiences as a mixed-race person in the UK, and on questions of identity, (un)belonging and culture.
The idea behind The Shape of Things to Come is to encourage performers to develop new performance modes in front of small enthusiastic audiences.
The programme continues with five more pieces throughout July and early August:
Ruth Berkoff | The Beauty of Being Herd | 6 - 8 July
A woman decides to say goodbye to life as she knows it, and to live instead as a sheep.
Sara Hartel | Strike Limited | 20 - 22 July
Co-operate for mutual benefit and stand up to management or choose to betray your fellow players in a bid to advance your own interests at the expense of theirs.
Rebecca Batala | Have You Seen This Girl? | 27 - 29 July
A mother is looking for her daughter who was taken into care. What begins as an appeal for help unfolds as a horror story as things take a supernatural turn.
Aasiya Shah | I Did Not Just Waste My Life | 3-5 August
Bringing the authentic energy and physicality of the boxing gym to a theatre setting, we join a fighter preparing imminently to face her opponent – not an adversary in the ring but a person who has injured her in life.
Marianne Tuckman | The Rising Damp and Other Tails | 10 - 11 August
An exclusive client viewing of some of the lesser-known areas within our attractively priced and conveniently located character property in Swansea High Street, in the company of Estate Agent Tuckman.