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2006

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part of Fifteen Years, Two Fingers, Arches Live!

Synopsis:
The Art Of Swimming, was first glimpsed as a ten-minute taster earlier this year; and this fully-developed 50-minute version, with live accordion score by Michael John McCarthy, now offers an eloquent and strangely haunting insight into the life of Mercedes Gleitzer, the first British woman ever to swim the English Channel.
Joyce McMillan, Scotsman

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2006

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part of Spend A Penny, a series of short plays based on an idea by Andy Arnold

Synopsis:
Imagine that there are two half-hour shows, one played out in the Ladies toilet, the other in the Gents. Imagine that each show consists of four five-minute monologues, written and performed by some of the finest theatre artists in Scotland. And then imagine that you experience each of these snippets alone, face to face with a single actor, either in a toilet cubicle, or somewhere around the wash-basins. This is the Arches 15th anniversary show Spend A Penny; and it makes an extraordinary, intense and challenging 21st-century theatre experience, sometimes as rich and intimate as a private moment with a sister or best friend, sometimes as grotesque and vivid as a trip to the underworld, in a painting by Brueghel or Bosch.
Joyce McMillam, Scotsman