London’s famous ICA is home to the best new art and culture from Britain and around the world – not to mention a good friend and collaborator with the Port Eliot Festival. As part of an accompanying programme of events for the ICA’s summer exhibition, Poor Old Tired Horse, artist Anna Barham will be performing at this year's festival.
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The Young People’s tent and performance space Twenty Five (previously Mucking About With Words) will again present local young artists’ work produced, programmed, promoted, performed, directed, designed, and managed entirely by themselves under the guidance of Cornwall's Rogue Theatre Company, with support from The Works.
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Writer and television director Rick Stroud is best known for directing popular soaps and television series such as Coronation Street and Cadfael. He recently wrote and directed the BBC’s celebration of the life of John Betjemen, and is currently writing The Book of the Moon (Transworld) to celebrate the 40th anniversary of man’s first steps on the moon. To celebrate its publication this spring, Rick will be leading a moonwatching session in the Walled Garden at this year's Port Eliot Festival.
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Found in Translation has been described as “a quest of arbitrary limits and new frontiers, written in the tradition of Luke Rhineheart’s The Dice Man and Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure: one part literary lecture, one part multimedia performance, and with a hefty dose of cutting-edge satire.”
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Rebecca Lenkiewicz is a playwright, poet and actress. Her first play Soho: A Tale of Table Dancers won a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival, while her second play The Night Season won the 2004 Critics Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright. Lenkiewicz’s other plays include Shoreditch Madonna, Blue Moon Over Poplar and Her Naked Skin, which premiered in 2008 on the Olivier stage at the National Theatre, making her the first living female playwright to achieve this.
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