Dressing The Part

A Durational Performance from 5pm until 9pm (watch all four hours or just half an hour)

Self-presentation. Personal tastes. You chose to put that on. You chose to. Fads, trends, standardised uniforms. Ooo – nice. What has she come as?

Dressing The Part employs two performers and 50 pieces of original photography in an exploration of performance in everyday life through what we wear. Dressing The Part is a dress up and dress down performance piece in which everyone we are, were, and ever could be, are laid bare in front of an event-controlling audience.

As well as being a freelance artist, Ellie Harrison founded Hello Friends Theatre in 2006. The company is ever striving to create a perfect replica of the subtly theatrical, seductive world the media presents… but in a live medium where there are no edits or flattering angles. Everything is in shot. We want to find the common ground between the audience and the performer. What makes us both laugh? What makes us both unnervingly uncomfortable? What we see on the TV; in the pub; on the bus? The company makes work that responds to the opinions and interests of our audiences, and acknowledges our differences as freely as we acknowledge our common ground. Hello Friends Theatre are currently touring How To Be Well Dressed and Famous to studio spaces across the country.

Ollie Smith is an independent artist who makes performance work which interrogates the frictions of reality and fantasy, especially the hazy place which human thought seems to inhabit somewhere in-between the two. He is currently making work with artist Phoebe Walsh and is also working as the Coordination Manager of experimental company Reckless Sleepers.

For more information about Hello Friends Theatre’s current projects and tour dates, go to myspace.com/hellofriendstheatre or contact via e-mail hellofriends.caniplay@hotmail.com

Please note that this performance contains partial female nudity and full male nudity.