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FAIRY QUEEN AT THE BURTON TAYLOR STUDIO, OXFORD
UK Premiere: 9 – 13 June, 8pm


The first UK production of Fairy Queen by Olivier Cadiot is to be performed at the Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford from Tuesday 9th of June till Saturday 13th of June at 8pm. Tickets cost £5 standard price or £4 with concessions. The show lasts 50 minutes in duration.

Fairy Queen is the story of a fairy who wants to become a poet cum performance artist. In the words of the text: “We’ve had body art, so why not neuron art, ay? Vocal art in space? Raw and direct theatre? We’ll find a name for it later but for now let’s just call it poetry.” She is invited to have lunch with Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice Toklas at their flat in Paris, but events don’t turn out how she expected.

The Burton Taylor provides the perfect intimate space for a production that seeks to create an intimate bond between performer and audience. The thrust stage and simple design allows for free-flowing communication. Indeed, the show strips down theatre to the basics of storytelling in a short and snappy performance full of surreal humour and poetic grace. The translator, Dominic Glynn, plays all the characters (Fairy, Gertrude, Alice) as well as narrating the action. This one-man show is a real tour de force, which cannot fail to move, delight and entertain anyone that sees it.

The text was given a first reading at the Etcetera Theatre in London to rave audience reviews. Dominic Glynn’s translation aims to recreate the seamless phraseology of the original text and to transpose its offbeat humour and postmodernism to the English language. It forms part of an ongoing collaboration with Olivier Cadiot, which will include translations of Shakespeare and Gertrude Stein for the Comédie de Reims in 2010 and 2011.

Olivier Cadiot’s work spans the genres of fiction, poetry and performance. He has established himself as a leading writer on the French literary and theatre scene. Apart from Fairy Queen, other writing includes Art Poetic and The Colonel Zouave, published by P.O.L. Described by the website of the television channel Arte as a ‘troublemaker who plays with words and zany situations with a musical virtuosity and by the arts revue journal Vacarme as ‘the poet of a fictionalised antiquity, updated for the modern era’, he will officially be headlining the 2010 Avignon Festival.

Dominic Glynn is currently a PhD student at Oxford University. He is a writer, translator, actor and director. He has previously performed at the BAC, the Cockpit Theatre and the Warwick Arts Centre, directed at the Loft Theatre and the RHUL Studio. Published articles have appeared in Contemporary Theatre Review and French Studies.

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