Gertrude Stein: Counting Her Dresses

and other plays...

based on the theatre writings of Gertrude Stein

The Last Bulmershe Production in Bob Kayley Studio Theatre

The last Bulmershe Production to be presented in Bob Kayley Studio Theatre, Bulmershe Court, before Film, Theatre & Television moves to its new home in the Minghella Building at Whiteknights, is taking place at 7.00 place on 8^th, 9^th and 10^th December 2010.

Counting Her Dresses and other plays, is a short, mixed-media, promenade performance based on theatre writings by Gertrude Stein and devised by Professor Lib Taylor. Gertrude Stein was an American writer who lived in Paris for most of her adult life and was a significant figure in the development of early twentieth century modernism. She was an artists' patron and one of the first collectors of paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne and others. She wrote novels, short stories, poetry and criticism, as well as a number of very short 'plays' and opera libretti. Even though her plays are very rarely performed they have been very influential in the development of avant-garde theatre.

Lib Taylor's performance juxtaposes a soundscape of voices, live performance, an 'exhibition' of paintings and mediated images projected onto and across the space to evoke Stein's sense of theatre as a place of experience and emotion, not as a place of story and action. The performance comprises five of theatre fragments which have been combined in a collage that alludes to the experimental art that Stein promoted.

Tickets are available from Liz Silvester

Tel: 0118 3788878

Email: e.a.silvester@reading.ac.uk