Our Country: Edinburgh Tapes
by Our Country
Interview snippets later incorporated into performances of Our Country.Aug 3rd-26th in the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Venue 26: Summerhall.https://festival18.summerhall.co.uk/event/our-country/Sophocles’ Antigone acts as a provocation for this autobiographical unearthing, based on recorded conversations between the artist and her younger brother—a citizen of the still-Wild West, California’s marijuana country. Recalling a time when we were little—as siblings, as a nation, as a democratic system—Our Country interlaces origin mythologies from the Wild West and Ancient Greece with psychoanalytic theory and childhood memories.
Episodes
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3. "I Once Pushed Him Through a Glass Window"
Interview snippets later incorporated into performances of Our Country. Aug 3rd-26th in the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Venue 26: Summerhall. https://festival18.summerhall.co.uk/event/our-country/
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2. "How Magical it was for Her"
Interview snippets later incorporated into performances of Our Country. Aug 3rd-26th in the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Venue 26: Summerhall. https://festival18.summerhall.co.uk/event/our-country/
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1. "It Was Our Pet Beetle"
Interview snippets later incorporated into performances of Our Country. Aug 3rd-26th in the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Venue 26: Summerhall. https://festival18.summerhall.co.uk/event/our-country/
About this show
Interview snippets later incorporated into performances of Our Country.Aug 3rd-26th in the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Venue 26: Summerhall.https://festival18.summerhall.co.uk/event/our-country/Sophocles’ Antigone acts as a provocation for this autobiographical unearthing, based on recorded conversations between the artist and her younger brother—a citizen of the still-Wild West, California’s marijuana country. Recalling a time when we were little—as siblings, as a nation, as a democratic system—Our Country interlaces origin mythologies from the Wild West and Ancient Greece with psychoanalytic theory and childhood memories.
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