Monkey Bars
Published on 14. August 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
68 pages
978-1-84943-469-0 (ISBN)
Description
'When you're a child you don't really think... cos you like to live like a child. Doesn't really seem you're just going to be an adult. Like time flies by and you just want... to, like, stay as a child, but you just enjoy things, the way it goes.'
Award-winning writer Chris Goode teamed up with Karl James (The Dialogue Project) to ask thirty 8-10 year olds to talk about their lives, their thoughts, their world. In Monkey Bars their words are spoken by adults. Not adults playing children, but adults playing adults, in adult situations. Monkey Bars is a revelatory verbatim show that is funny, touching and endlessly surprising.
Winner of a 2012 Fringe First Award.
Award-winning writer Chris Goode teamed up with Karl James (The Dialogue Project) to ask thirty 8-10 year olds to talk about their lives, their thoughts, their world. In Monkey Bars their words are spoken by adults. Not adults playing children, but adults playing adults, in adult situations. Monkey Bars is a revelatory verbatim show that is funny, touching and endlessly surprising.
Winner of a 2012 Fringe First Award.
Reviews / Votes
"Excellent - Occasionally moving and somewhat satirical - sweet and funny.' - Time out 'Delightfully surreal - highly entertaining - Hilarious and poignant by turns' - Telegraph 'A funny, touching, diffuse look at The Big Questions... crisply perfect... It moves you. It makes you think. It makes you laugh and it makes you well up more than once.' - What's on Stage 'beautifully pitched - an eye-opening, refreshing pleasure' - Independent 'a small gem from eclectic polymath Chris Goode - This neatly crafted show is far removed from Michael Barrymore's Kids Say the Funniest Things. Instead it's simple, absorbing and at times beautiful' - Evening Standard 'Goode's approach ends up being thought-provoking and complex, and satirical about adults - very entertaining' - Independent on Sunday"More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
77 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84943-469-0 (9781849434690)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Chris Goode is a writer and maker working in theatre and live performance. He has amassed a significant body of unpredictable work in diverse formats, from large-scale theatre-based projects, one of a series of performances made specifically for audiences' own homes; and script-based pieces. Chris also works as a poet and poetry critic, and as a musician and sound artist. He is increasingly noted for his reading/performances of experimental work by earlier poets and artists, including Kurt Schwitters, Christopher Knowles, Samuel Beckett and Michael Basinski. He is an Associate Researcher at Rose Bruford College and a member of the Advisory Panel to the Archive of the Now.