Fairy Queen by Olivier Cadiot

Etcetera Theatre 16 March 19h30

Lunch? Stop. We will dance. Stop. Gertrude.

A fairy with nitrogen soled boots, nineteenth century California set in Nineteen-Twenties Paris, a salon, a very dark salon with lots of paintings by famous artists, Gertrude Stein, William Robinson’s ‘laissez-faire’ approach to gardening, the amazing Maillard reaction, a performance that doesn’t quite go to plan, Mildred Aldrich and Alice. B. Toklas, the films of Jean-Luc Godard, Dryden’s poems and pre-natal music, the monologue of someone who is hardly able to speak told by somebody who is hardly able to shut up, oysters and veal for lunch, the rural and the urban, the modern and the old, eternal and fleeting, all in a single reading.

Adapted and translated and read to a group of people assembled in a room one night by Dominic Glynn.

“Absolute tripe” Gertrude Stein

“Very evocative” Fairy King

“A recipe for success” Alice ‘Cookbook’ Toklas

tickets £4.50 www.etceteratheatre.com