My wordless Alter Ego...
Lois of the Lane: seductress, mystic, poet. Well, maybe in another life. (Actually, probably not.) Keeper of a seemingly bottomless pit of facial expressions and fond of a good tune, Ms of the Lane specialises in bite-sized chunks of the sublimely ridiculous.
Born out of my sell-out one woman show Glitch in 2006, Ms of the Lane subsequently had her very own new show Super Situation in 2009 and will be starring in my next solo show 'Fabled' this year.
Confirmed dates so far:
10th of June | 5pm | at Platform
as part of the Holloway Arts Festival
DETAILS AND TICKETS here
3rd-16th, 18th, 20th-25th of August | 4pm | at The Bongo Club
as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
(Tickets on sale from the 31st of May...)
I'm planning on some more London previews in July and am hoping to head overseas with it in September.
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Occasionally she hits the variety circuit with one of her 5 minute-ish
Random Acts of Ridiculousness and has so far bewildered
and thoroughly amused punters at (amongst other places):
Madame Jojo's,
Volupte, The
Bethnal Green Working Man's Club, The
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, The
Paradise, Dirty
Dicks, Whitechapel
Art Gallery, Offset
Festival, Resistance
Gallery, The Betsey
Trotwood, various places at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe including The
Bongo Club and now she wants to entertain YOU. There's probably no
point stopping her.
Hold on to your hats Ladies and Gentlemen - the Lane has well and truly
landed!
Upcoming dates:
May 25th | The Rag Factory | Boxing Rabbit Launch Party
June 29th | Jackson's Lane | Postcards Cabaret
Acts currently include:
The Box of 1,000 Dances - 3 minutes
Lois comes on all DJ looking - mahoosive headphones and a heavy record
box. Cue 'The Land of 1,000 Dances' by Wilson Pickett. Lois has an appropriate
'record' in her box for every line of the song and she knows the words
pretty good too... Includes a dash of toy saxophone and a smattering of
sing-a-long-a-audience participation. It's fast, furious and irreverant.
Dance Fever - 4 and 1/2 minutes
Lois is going to mime a rendition of Elvis Presley's 'Fever' - well, that's
what we think. Instead we get Fever interspersed with a whole host of
snippets from all sorts of classic (not always classy...) popular tunes,
which somehow fit in. It's all perfectly timed and choreographed and entirely
ridiculous.
Alive and Amplified - 5 minutes 50 seconds
Over 5 and a half minutes of Air Guitar! Lots of different bits from various
guitar based hits all spliced together, ultimately leading up to a 'Back
in Black' finale. ROOOOOOOOCK!
Somewhere - 4 minutes
Lois is going to mime a beautiful version of 'Somewhere' from West Side
story but the genre keeps on taking her (and us) by surprise... From Country
to Dubstep and back again with the occasional surprise backing vocal.
Photo credits, in order:
Sarah
Costley, Moira
Lovell, Piglicker,
Graeme Braidwood,
Johanna
Spiers.
For more information, please contact
me.