Oberon Books, 2015

Oberon Modern Plays

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...A Western was the first piece Action Hero made. Performed in a bar with only a cowboy hat and some ketchup, Action Hero re-create scenes from an imaginary western together with the people in the room. This DIY western re-imagines the bar...

Oberon Books, 2015

Oberon Modern Plays

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...Extraordinary Rendition is a video, text & sound installation integrating live performance, and is performed for one audience member at a time. Taking place inside a purpose-built cabin constructed from the same materials as Camp X-Ray...

Oberon Books, 2015

Oberon Modern Plays

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...Using the borrowed ramblings of iconic frontmen, and performed with live analogue synthesisers, Frontman is a furiously loud part-gig, part-performance for a standing audience. The ghost of Dolly/Elvis/Kurt/Iggy is channelled...

Oberon Books, 2015

Oberon Modern Plays

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...Hoke’s Bluff borrows high school storylines, inspiring locker room speeches and sentimentality to tell an underdog story that’s been told a million times before. Shifting and re-arranging the trite conventions and narratives of American...

Oberon Books, 2015

Oberon Modern Plays

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...Slap Talk is a 6-hour-long argument to camera inspired by the self-aggrandising of boxers at a pre-fight weigh in. The performance is an extended, elaborate and absurd verbal sparring match that is both a linguistic version of the fight...

Oberon Books, 2015

Oberon Modern Plays

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...Watch Me Fall is a home-made stunt show inspired by daredevils, drag races and people who attempt the impossible. On a runway with audience standing on either side, Action Hero perform minaturised, DIY versions of bombastic stunts...