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SUMMARY:SICK! Festival – Slaptalk – Action Hero 
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DESCRIPTION:SICK! Festival is the first festival in the UK dedicated to r
 evealing and debating our most urgent physical\, mental and social chall
 enges. It is delivered in partnership with leading arts organisations\, 
 medical and academic institutions\, charities and community groups.\n\nS
 laptalk.\n\nAction Hero (UK).\n\nAt the Whitworth\n\nThursday 19 March -
  3pm – 9pm.\nFree admission.\n6 hours.\n\nInspired by the self-aggrandis
 ing of boxers at the pre-fight weigh in\, Slap Talk is a verbal sparring
  match that is both a linguistic version of the fight itself and a refle
 ction upon the violence present in everyday language.\n\nSpeaking to eac
 h other and to the audience via a live feed from a camera to a monitor\,
  the performers rant\, insult and threaten each other in a scripted vers
 ion of a pre-fight press conference crossed with a 24 hour rolling news 
 channel.\n\nOver 6 hours\, an autocue scrolls a continuous barrage of pa
 ssive aggressive violence of lovers talking\, the hard sell of a shoppin
 g channel\, the anger of the fire and brimstone preacher\, the subtle vi
 olence of middle class one-upmanship.\n\nAction Hero is the collaboratio
 n between UK artists Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse. They make live a
 rt and performance that seeks to use audiences as collaborators and co-c
 onspirators. Whilst exploring the epic\, they create performance that is
  intimate\, distinctive and invigorating.\n\nAction Hero have toured to 
 theatres\, festivals\, bars and public spaces from an old cinema in Bang
 kok to Shanghai Grand Theatre to a Satan’s Riders Motorcycle club house 
 in Tasmania and a blues bar in Texas on the same stage as James Brown. T
 hey have been shortlisted for several awards and won an Austin (Texas) C
 ritic’s Table Award in 2013.\n\n‘ultimate discursive arena\, interrogati
 ng the construction and application of dialogue and performance…intimate
 \, engaging and unsettling work’   This is Tomorrow\n\n‘see why this mav
 erick company\, with its engaging DIY aesthetic\, is attracting so much 
 attention’   The Guardian\n\nThis is a six hour long performance. Audien
 ces are encouraged to stay for as long as they can but welcome to take b
 reaks whenever they like.\n\n\nCREDITS\nConcept\, Design & Direction by:
  Gemma Paintin & James Stenhouse (Action Hero)\nDeveloped with the suppo
 rt of: Caravan and BIOS\, Athens\nPerformers: Gemma Paintin and James St
 enhouse\nDevelopment support: The Darkroom and China Plate\nProduced by:
  Action Hero with Mel Scaffold at Theatre Bristol\nAssociated Artists: I
 n Between Time\nMembers: Residence and Forest Fringe\n\n@ActionHeroLive
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:The Whitworth\, Manchester
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