Crossing the Line’

Crossing the Line, Przymierska Morgan’s new show, is a collage of fifty moments of border crossings from film & TV, re-enacted & re-imagined across fifty minutes of stage time.

Performed by an amazing ensemble with distinguished backgrounds in stage, film , TV, mime & physical theatre (and featuring lounge club legend Count Indigo), Crossing the Line presents a kaleidoscopic reflection of the way we literally see - through film & TV from around the world - border crossings and the people that make them, or try to. With pop songs, shoot-outs, balloons, seas, interplanetary travel and an elephant in the room, the show is astonishingly varied, skipping from moments of quiet & reflection to ones of violence & confrontation, humour and romance.

But Crossing the Line is serious about the fun it has. By cutting specific moments of narrative from their moorings and re-shaping them with a diverse cast into a semi-abstract playing-out of social, political and human relationships, crystallised at ‘the border’, a ‘simple’ re-presentation of film & TV material becomes at the same time a vehicle for the shared & hopeful expression of a small group.

Margot Przymierska and Nicholas Morgan make their work on the fault line between performance & theatre, where they explore the complex relationship between the stories told by mass popular culture and what feels like our own immediate subjective experience. Their practice aims to uncover and playfully critique the interweaving of these two threads in the fabric of our reality. Having made work essentially as a duo for three years, in art galleries, above pubs, in universities and concert halls, devising Crossing the Line has marked a new departure for Przymierska Morgan, involving over a dozen collaborators, including seven additional live performers.

Przymierska Morgan said “There’s a huge amount of entertainment in the piece, but none of it is gratuitous. It’s all rigorously & conceptually justified.”