A prey mantis, a gladiator and a cat walk onto the stage…. the start of a joke? No, just your three MixMatched presenters!!!
Upon this hallowed evening we had a full set of ‘spooken’ word performances… some deep, some spiritual and many just utterly macabre! One being Sam’s creepy story of a larvae-human bug prince who ate many of his brides… Jac gave us a iconic poem titled BLADES, and we also had a passionate poem about how much the Big Drum as meant to people as a space, which has sadly needed to close (MixMatched will be finding a new venue for our next Canterbury Night planned for Sunday the 29th of January… stay in tune!)
A big thank-you to everyone who came, and to everyone who dressed up! Witches, ghouls, zombies and Garfield – unfortunately we didn’t photograph all of them – but thank-you Simon Kempthorne (who some say look like Phil Mitchel) for some great photos.
We had a fab time hosting our various talented and eclectic performers… and it was lovely to catch up with our lovely audience community…. and, at the end of the night we read out the latest spectacularly odd, quite political, ‘mixmatched’, audience poem….
Our ‘planned’ performers for the event:
(if you would like to contact any performers to invite to future events please let us know!)
- Emma Robdale – took to the stage, dressed as a prey mantis, and performed a short story about a macabre dream she’d had of her as a lion… with a main of bulging tics.
- Adam Dorr – MixMatched regular, performed his newest comedy routine!
- Jac – Making her second appearance upon MixMatched stage! – we were pleased to have her back! – performed a number of short poems, perhaps the most startling one being ‘BLADES!’ which became a motif for the evening!
- Cassie de St. Croix
- Ellen Jones – A truly fitting performance. Ellen rewrote the Witches scene from Macbeth, empowering the three crones within a dark magic spell. Complete with three fantastic hand-maid masks!
- Simon Kempthorne – returned to the stage with his new batch of dad jokes…
- Zoe Grasby – Another welcome MixMatched regular!
- Lunar – In full Witchy Pride Lunar claimed the stage with her spoken word and accapella song!
- Sol Gjoine
- Kat Peddie
- Hameed – coming for the first time. Performed a personal spoken word piece and antidote.
- Aisha – Dressed as a stunning 80s Vampire, Aisha shared a personal poem that resonated with many audience members.
We had two sign-ups on the night! –
The lovely Sam, who performed a eerie, and quite disturbing story about a prince who was born as a larvae bug monster and ate a number of his brides (before meeting ‘the one’)
And a MixMatched first performer, who shared with us some of her spoken word poetry upon family and relationships.
