Is it possible to write new fairytales? Or can we just rewrite old ones? I’m thinking here about Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale where he breaks down a group of Russian folk tales into a classification system of thirty one narrative functions.
For Little Red Riding Hood, it breaks down like this:
1. One of the [...]
Hello. I thought I would post up two poems today. Both of these were originally recorded for Cambridge 209 Radio last year.
Apparently 209 is going off-air at the end of this week. Tonight was meant to be the final fundraiser for the station, but I’m led to believe that closure is now unavoidable. If you’re [...]
Ross Sutherland: My Shoes Are In Love from Ross Sutherland on Vimeo.
Belated Valentines Day wishes to you!
The poem is taken from my children’s show, The Nine And A Half Commandments of Aisle16. The show also features work from Luke Wright, Chris Hicks and Joel ‘Joel’ Stickley. The whole thing was originally commissioned by The British [...]
My face appeared in The Independent yesterday. I was teaching journalist Holly Williams how to be a performance poet. It was a lot of fun. Our photographer got held up because she’d just been shooting N-Dubz, and they insisted at looking at every photograph she took: “Let me see that one! That’s the shot! That’s [...]
A while back I did an interview with arts collective Mercy, for a regular feature they run called My Geppetto. The idea was that I name a major influence and talk about how they inspired me. I chose Dr Who.
The thing went up on Mercy’s website this week- you can read the interview [...]
As printed in today’s Broadway Baby:
In this one-hour show, talented Ross Sutherland brings philosophy, physics and fun together to create a highly entertaining view of contemporary society, which transcends the obvious, scintillates with originality and packs a hard-hitting intellectual punch with the feather-light levity of a cotton-ball souflée aerated by a child’s laughter.
Spoonfed just posted the first review of T3SoP, and its really nice. Thanks guys!
Read it here.
THE THREE STIGMATA OF PACMAN
A show about time travel by Ross Sutherland
ROSS SUTHERLAND’S JOB IS TO PREDICT THE FUTURE. As a journalist for an influential and notoriously histrionic newspaper, Ross spends his days scribbling predictions about the impending apocalypse. When a run-in with a fishing magazine reveals the devastating power of self-fulfilling prophecy, Ross pledges to repair the [...]
The other week I took a trip to Cardiff to record a segment for Radio 4’s poetry show, Bespoken Word. We recorded in front of a live audience in a lecture hall at Cardiff Uni. The whole thing was a lot of fun- great performances from everyone on the bill (Laura Dockrill, Disraeli, Nathan Penlington).
I [...]
Yesterday saw the annual all-day poetry extravaganza at the Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell. Which means today sees the annual all-day nausea extravaganza at the spinning couch in my piercingly bright house. From what I can remember of it, I had a pretty good time. In the afternoon, there was the launch for the new Fuselit [...]
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Upcoming gigs
Tue 12th-30th Jan, 9:00pm (not Sun/Mon)
The Three Stigmata of Pacman
The Old Red Lion Theatre, 418 St John St, London EC1V 4NJ. (£10)
Mon 8th Feb, 7:30pm
Aisle16 Presents: Local Boys Done Good
Norwich Art Centre, 51 St Benedicts St (£6/£8.50)
Mon 15th Feb, 4:00pm
The 9.5 Commandments of Aisle16 (children's show)
The Southbank Centre, London (free)
Mon 16th & 17th Feb, 2:00pm
Gluemouth (children's show w/ Laura Dockrill & The Word Orchestra)
The Southbank Centre, London (free)
Wed 24th Feb, 7:45pm
Articulate (with Liz Bentley)
ARC, Stockton (£3)
Thu 25th Feb, 7:30pm
Tongue-Fu (with Ventriloquist, live band and Poem In-between People)
Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London (£5)
Fri 26th Mar, 7:30pm
Poetica
Bangor, Wales (£?)
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