Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model

Bryony Kimmings

• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781783190638
• eBook ISBN: 9781783195626
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Performance Art
• Index: Literature

In an audacious, provocative protest against flagrant global attempts to sexualise and commodify childhood for profit, award-winning artist Bryony Kimmings and her niece Taylor, nine, decided to play the global tween machine at its own game by inventing dinosaur-loving, bike riding,tuna pasta-eating, alternative pop star Catherine Bennett.

In a typically screwball and humorous fashion acclaimed writer Bryony Kimmings, tackles the issues at the very core of their plight head on and begsthe question, what does it really take to be a Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model for a child of the 21st century?

Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model took Edinburgh Festival 2013 by storm, winning critical acclaim as well as a number of awards including a Fringe First, the Fringe Review Outstanding Theatre Award 2013 and the Arches Brick Award 2013.

SOHO
THEATRE

BRYONY
KIMMINGS:

CREDIBLE LIKEABLE
SUPERSTAR ROLE MODEL

First performed at the Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh, on 25 August 2013.

It transferred to Soho Theatre, London on 8 October 2013.

BRYONY KIMMINGS:
CREDIBLE LIKEABLE SUPERSTAR ROLE MODEL

Written by Bryony Kimmings

Performed by Bryony Kimmings and Taylor Houchen

Music and Co-Direction by Tom Parkinson

Lighting Design by Marty Langthorne

Set Design by David Curtis-Ring

Costumes by David Curtis-Ring and Stephanie Turner

Dramaturgical Support from Nina Steiger

Choeography of ‘Animal Kingdom’ by Figs in Wigs

Produced by Mimi Poskitt

Stage Managed by Hattie Prust and Lottie Vallis

Bryony Kimmings is a performance artist based in the East of England. She creates full-length theatre shows, cabaret works, homemade music, sound installations and documentary films. Her work is larger than life, outrageous, visually loud, often dangerous, somewhat unpredictable but above all fun. She is inspired by the taboos and anomalies of British culture and her autobiographical themes promote the airing of her own dirty laundry to oil conversations on seemingly difficult subjects. Her work follows real life social experiments that she embarks upon with genuine genius intrigue and wholehearted, fearless gusto. Bryony’s work has been seen in galleries and theatres across the world, most recently at Frieze Art Fair, Soho Theatre, Antifest (Finland), Culturgest (Portugal), Fusebox Festival (Texas), the Southbank Centre, Brighton Festival, Duckie, the Roundhouse, the Barbican, Wales Millennium Centre, Latitude, the Secret Garden Party and Assembly. Her 2010 work Sex Idiot won the Total Theatre Award and her 2011 show 7 Day Drunk was awarded a Arches Brick Award nomination and Time Out Critics’ Choice award.

TAYLOR HOUCHEN

Taylor attends Westfield Primary School and likes school most of the time. She likes reading and all types of dancing: tap, modern, hip hop and Irish dancing. She also loves Tang Soo Do. She has a big family with three bros and two sisters and when she grows up Taylor wants to be a midwife and is desperate to join army cadets when she’s old enough.Taylor likes travelling, but doesn’t like the flying part after a bumpy landing made her sick once. This is Taylor’s first show.

LOTTIE VALLIS

Lottie Vallis completed her BA Honours Degree in Musical Theatre and Professional Dance at The Urdang Academy, London before training at East 15 Acting School, where she gained a Masters in Acting. She is 1/6 of all-female performance group Fighetta and has performed in various London theatres including Sadler’s Wells, Her Majesty’s Theatre and the Criterion Theatre. Lottie has strong physical theatre and dance skills and experience in devising her own performance work.

MIMI POSKITT

Mimi is a creative producer and director who works mainly with emerging companies and on concept driven ideas. Credits include: Theatre Uncut 2013 (Young Vic), Bryony Kimmings’ Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model (Edinburgh and Tour), Brave New World 1 (Barbican Pit Lab and The YARD), School for Scandal (Park Theatre and Tour), Chasing the Moon (RADA). She has worked an assistant producer for ATG and is also the Artistic Director of the award-winning theatre company Look Left Look Right. As well as producing theatre Mimi has also worked for The Guardian, ITV and the BBC. In 2007 she won a Royal Television Society award for a documentary about 9/11.

TOM PARKINSON

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Future Fauns
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