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Mem Morrison

MEM MORRISON  

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Mem Morrison is a performance artist who has been making his own, highly personal, work since 1995. With a strong emphasis on simple but inventive design, his work draws upon personal history and environment to evoke the complexities of acknowledging and accepting cultural differences. Past work has explored themes from childhood bullying to family wedding ceremonies, with Morrison drawing together memories, mementos and art installation to create deceptively simple, richly layered and highly personal essays on universal subjects. His work will speak to audiences that have an interest in multi-disciplinary art and countries that have a history of migration.

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below is a list of Mem Morrison's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Leftovers         Lilac         Ringside         Showroom         Undo

Leftovers

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In Leftovers, Morrison remembers growing up in his Turkish Cypriot family's 'greasy spoon' cafe in north London. With storytelling and childhood games, video projection and the sounds of sizzling frying pans - plus 60 loaves of sliced bread - he evokes an English working class cafe culture that has been assimilated and imperceptibly changed by generations of migrating families. the piece explores culinary and cultural difference and how this is expressed through food. It is a gentle investigation of how cultures meet and mingle, eat, socialise and influence each other.

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Lilac

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Ringside

Synopsis:
draws on his Turkish heritage and all the family weddings that he has ever been to and the one that might, or might not, await him.
- Lyn Gardner, Guardian

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Spill Festival of Performance

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Shorditch Town Hall, London    2009

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Showroom

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Undo

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South East London in the 70s. A school on a hill. A bunch of kids and a boy who doesn't fit in. Imagine what happens. . .Mem Morrison has decided to face his demons. In Undo, he returns to the class of '79 in order to track down and confront the bullies who tormented him throughout his youth. Shifting subjectively between live performance and documentary film, Mem pieces together his past in an attempt to unravel the complex psychology of the oppressor and the oppressed.

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