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MEM MORRISON |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Mem Morrison is a performance artist who has been making his own, highly personal, work since 1995. With a strong emphasis on simple but inventive design, his work draws upon personal history and environment to evoke the complexities of acknowledging and accepting cultural differences. Past work has explored themes from childhood bullying to family wedding ceremonies, with Morrison drawing together memories, mementos and art installation to create deceptively simple, richly layered and highly personal essays on universal subjects. His work will speak to audiences that have an interest in multi-disciplinary art and countries that have a history of migration.
Plays by Mem Morrison
Leftovers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Mem Morrison Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71416 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Synopsis: | In Leftovers, Morrison remembers growing up in his Turkish Cypriot family's 'greasy spoon' cafe in north London. With storytelling and childhood games, video projection and the sounds of sizzling frying pans - plus 60 loaves of sliced bread - he evokes an English working class cafe culture that has been assimilated and imperceptibly changed by generations of migrating families. The piece explores culinary and cultural difference and how this is expressed through food. It is a gentle investigation of how cultures meet and mingle, eat, socialise and influence each other. | |||||
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Lilac | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24917 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Ringside | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shorditch Town Hall, London | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Mem Morrison Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98283 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Notes: | Spill Festival of Performance | |||||
Synopsis: | draws on his Turkish heritage and all the family weddings that he has ever been to and the one that might, or might not, await him. | |||||
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Showroom | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24918 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Undo | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54786 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Synopsis: | South East London in the 70s. A school on a hill. A bunch of kids and a boy who doesn't fit in. Imagine what happens. . .Mem Morrison has decided to face his demons. In Undo, he returns to the class of '79 in order to track down and confront the bullies who tormented him throughout his youth. Shifting subjectively between live performance and documentary film, Mem pieces together his past in an attempt to unravel the complex psychology of the oppressor and the oppressed. | |||||
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