BUZZCUT: DOUBLE THRILLS presents Louise Orwin, Melanie Forbes-Brooms and Katy Dye!

BUZZCUT are super chuffed to be bringing Louise Orwin to Glasgow with A Girl and a Gun! And we're meeeeeeeega delighted to be have Melanie Forbes-Broomes and Katy Dye performing new works in a triple whammy performance mash up!

///// LOUISE ORWIN: A GIRL AND A GUN /////

‘All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun’ // Jean-Luc Goddard

Last year, Louise started seeing girls and guns everywhere. She obsessed over them on YouTube, marvelled over them in music videos, felt a bit disgusted about them in video games, and tried not to see them in hardcore porn. She began to ponder what it was about that coupling that was so attractive. And she wondered whether Goddard was right.

This is a show about girls and guns. It’s a show that asks two people to take to the stage and play out a film script in front of you. It wonders what the difference might be in watching something on screen and experiencing something live. It is a show that asks what it means to be a 'hero', what it means to be a plot device, and what it means to watch.

This show is a challenge to Godard, every other film which star girls and guns as plot devices, and the audiences that watch them. It is also an admission and manifestation of ambiguity: Louise’s own confusion, as a woman, at being simultaneously repulsed and attracted to the kind of imagery and archetypes the show explores.

Expect gun-twirlin’, play-actin’ and Nancy-Sinatra-dancin’.

And me. And you.

//// KATY DYE: FLAG /////

Flag is an exploration of what it means to fly a flag, and what we associate with red white and blue. It is an exorcism for post brexit britain through the medium of Britpop, Britannia and biscuit tins.

///// MELANIE FORBES-BROOMS: GRIN (work in progress) /////

Using a combination of dance, sound and light we aim to create an immersive performance that challenges the viewers perceptions. Strength, resilience and the creative force will be embodied through interpretations of West Indian social dances and ironic inversions of classical forms. We are interested in seeing the world upside down, seeing irony and exploring what is negative and painful within the positive and whole.

Grin will continue to be developed into a group work alongside a movement program with Ashanti Harris. Music produced by Tom Marshallsay.

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This event is free to anyone who lives and/or works in Govan. Please contact the BUZZCUT team on glasgowbuzzcut@gmail.com if you'd like to attend through this invitation.

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Grin and Flag are highly visual works with limited text, and Louise Orwin's performance will be mostly captioned, although some sections will be spoken without captions. If you have any questions about access give Karl a buzz on 07834 751536 or buzzcutkarl@gmail.com.