CLARE STEPHENSON   

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Plays by Clare Stephenson

CLARE STEPHENSON

Shoplifters, Shopgirls

1st Produced:

Glasgow: Tramway Theatre, Scotland, EUR >>>

21 May 2011

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doollee no

#132189

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Genre:

piece

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Notes:

created and performed by Clare Stephenson and Sophie Macpherson

Synopsis:

At the begiining, two women stand facing one another, using their voices in powerful, almost operatic style to vocalise around phrases like yellow t-shirt and stripey pants. Then, in the dark  and recurring throughout most of the show  there are beautifully-read voice-overs from the diary of someone who might be a young gay man living in Glasgow, recording what clothes he wears, and what signals they send. Theres a scene where half-a-dozen performers, under the direction of artist Clare Stephenson, arrange themselves around the stage like shop-window dummies; one painstakingly puts on a pair of socks without sitting down, or bending at all. Theres a love song, delivered in classic chanteuse style by a tiny blonde in black. And finally, the show takes a swerve towards a more theatrical style, as a taller woman with sleek red hair stands in front of a dazzling white venetian blind, belting out Gertrude-Stein style strings of apparently meaningless letters and sounds.
Joyce McMillan, Scotsman

Further Reference:

Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 11 Page 603

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