Two Four One One

Join us for a sculptural performance comedy double act, and to find new ways to describe the moon.
This event is part of Watch festival
Four compelling, disruptive, charming and beguilingly aberrant pieces of contemporary theatre on the themes
of looking, hiding seeing, being seen – and changing.

How do you find new ways to describe the moon?

Wrestle with a wild beast
Read some Proust
Recreate small acts of abandonment
Evade a census
Don’t ask me to make another damn cake
Act in a live art context
Or maybe you have to stay up all night to find out.

Cathy Butterworth is a performer, curator and researcher in Live Art practices, who for the last 10 years has programmed, produced and performed in projects within this field. In 2011 she began collaborating with Grace Surman and they produced Two Four One One, which was first presented as part of Compass Live Art Festival in Leeds.

Over the last decade Surman has been making work to disentangle, to escape, to slip in and out of logics, of traditions and of modes of selfhood, modes which move between the seemingly honest and the playfully constructed, she works firmly in a tradition that exists to be plundered, revered, and ridiculed in equal measure.

“Grace has been a long time favourite pursuing her own lines of enquiry in a completely idiosyncratic and delightful way. I love her intelligence, her presence on stage as if butter wouldn’t melt, and her forensic wit and savagery. There’s always great music too. This new collaboration with Cathy Butterworth is so welcome; make sure you make a space in your day for this.” Annie Lloyd