PREGNANT?!

                                                       (2009: solo multimedia project: 45min)

Short description

A multimedia performance lecture, delivered by a pseudo-pregnant cross-dressed male, who traces his epic journey on overly intimate relationships with those closest to himself, including some rabbits.

supported by BAC and Camden People’s Theatre

Credits

Mamoru Iriguchi:

Concept, Design (lighting, sound, props, costume, projection), Performance

Nikki Tomlinson: Dramaturgy

Review quotes

".....So begins a beautifully surreal journey through the landscapes of worry, childhood memory, fairytale and complicated psychology....the miracle is that you have spent some time in Iriguchi’s wonderful head.” Peter Crawley (**** The Irish Times)

“Spanning 10,000 years, the piece tunnels into the darkest recesses of the human body to toy with expectations of space and time, gender and biology, birth and death.”

JJ Harrington(*****Irish Theatre Magazine)

"tech-geek Mamoru Iriguchi wove an intricate and moving tale of life, death and birth subverted by bizarre imagery involving rabbits" —(Jon Pratty, The Guardian)

"Pregnant is a really eventful live art moment, loaded with pathos, sardonic wit, shifting realities and digital curiosity." —(Culture24)

Performance History

2011

Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany 

2010

Artisphere, Washington DC, USA

Corsham Festival, The Pound, Corsham

Pulse Festival, New Wolsey Studio, Ipswich

Sampled Festival, The Junction, Cambridge

Bluecoat, Liverpool

Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham

2009

British Performance Festival, PAD, Mainz, Germany 

Dublin Fringe Festival, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

deciBel 2009, The Greenroom, Manchester

Sprint Festival, Camden People’s Theatre, London

SPILL Festival National Platform, National Theatre Studio, London

Supper Club, The Basement, Brighton

Shunt Lounge, London

2008

Stoke Newington International Airport, London

Forest Fringe, Edinburgh

Scratch Festival, BAC, London

I Am Still Your Worst Nightmare, Arnolfini, Bristol

Peachy Coochy Nite, Toynbee Studios, London