In Excelsis - A Personal History Of Glam Rock

A multi-media performance for anyone who came late to their teens, or to Glam, or to anything, for that matter

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.


In Excelsis – A Personal History Of Glam Rock
A multi-media performance by Mandy Romero
Directed by Cathy Butterworth

1973 – Glam Rock is beginning to blitz, rampage and hell-raise its way into the nation’s sensibility, and a young teacher begins his professional career at a West Midlands comprehensive school. Over the next four years their paths are destined to cross as that most conflicted decade edges forward through terrorist attacks, royal weddings, power-cuts and all kinds of adolescent angst.
For anyone who came late to their teens, or to Glam, or to anything, for that matter, “In Excelsis” will offer some choice reminders of growing pains and eye-liner misuse. Where did Glam come from? How do we get to be who we are? Transgender artist Mandy Romero, will provide some answers in this new show created especially for the SHOUT Festival in 2013, lighting up the map of the West Midlands from Dorridge to Wolverhampton, West Bromwich to Groveley Dingle.
Expect fish, distant constellations, patch pocket baggies and canal towpaths along the way to the show’s Apocatastic conclusion.
MANDY ROMERO - Biography

Mandy Romero began her Live Art career at Liverpool's 2002 Biennial in a performance piece produced by Guillermo Gomez-Pena. Previous to that she had begun performing on the first of her "Dragging Round the World" circumnavigations of the globe. In 2003 she was one of three Associate Artists in Live Art at the Liverpool Bluecoat Arts Centre where, amongst a number of works created, she premiered the "live" version of her transgender epic "The Mandayana". After the second of her global tours in 2004 she was given a Fellowship in Live Art by the Arts Council to spend two months in residence at the Cable Factory in Helsinki. In 2005 she extended her involvement with the Liverpool Tate through a number of gallery-based performances and trained in Improvisation with Andrew Morrish the Australian dancer/improviser in Amsterdam. Most recently seen in cabaret on The Fitzcarraldo in Liverpool's docks Mandy has a website which tells more of her performing life,-