Kiss My Echo
Seven centuries of ‘authoritative’ medical imagery – Medieval illuminated manuscripts, Renaissance anatomy textbooks, nineteenth century photographic records, contemporary neurological studies of ‘unexplained symptoms’ – are set on a collision course in a startling piece of music theatre.
Scored for strings, piano and percussion by Paul Clark, Kiss My Echo turns the anatomist’s knife on the anatomists and gives the herbalist a dose of their own medicine. In doing so, it reveals the crisis at the heart of the modern hospital.
This piece formed part of the initial research and development for Clod Ensemble’s award-winning Performing Medicine initiative.
Suzy Willson - Direction; Paul Clark - Music; John Binias - Co-Writer; Aideen Malone - Lighting; Sarah Blenkinsop - Design; Roxie Curry - Producer
Performers: Zoe Bywater, Sarah Cameron, Joyce Henderson and Sam Kenyon.
Band: Calina de la Mare, James Keane, John Paul Gandy, Niall Webb
With Marc Clement, Robert Coster, Kinga Jarzyinka, Hannah Male, Isobel Milne, Sabhia Rehana and Marthe
“This is fantastic theatre - intelligent and witty yet open to question”
The Stage
“precisely choreographed […] nimbly directed by Suzy Willson and closely meshed with Paul Clark’s restless, atmospheric music … Clod Ensemble’s ‘Kiss My Echo gives’ us a taste of how the NHS might look if Salvador Dali were in charge”
The Financial Times
“Paul Clark’s outstanding score provides the framework for Clod Ensemble’s remarkable hybrid of music and theatre” BBCi ‘Today’s Top Three’
Battersea Arts Centre, London
2001
'Kiss My Echo' was commissioned by the Battersea Arts Centre
Supporters: Battersea Arts Centre; Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC); Queen Mary, University of London
