Something’s Gone Wrong in the Dreamhouse
Breaking News!!
Scream Blue Murmur will be bringing the Dreamhouse to Minnesota Fringe Festival in August 2011
2010 sees the sixth major international tour from Scream Blue Murmur. This year the musical poetry group travel from Northern Ireland to begin their adventure by road tripping from Minneapolis to Edmonton Fringe Festival by road performing in Winnipeg, Brandon, Moosejaw and Calgary along the way. They’ll complete the tour by driving all the way back to Minneapolis to catch their flights home.
These international poets have stunned audiences and critics, made many “Must See” lists and won an encore award with “The Morning after the Summer of Love”. Now Scream Blue Murmur present their new show “Something’s Gone Wrong in the Dreamhouse,” inspired by events of the 1930s, with hard-hitting and humorous words, chants and beats; a show to rock you from your seat. Not quite poetry but not quite anything else!
This new show looks at the rise of fascism, the credit crisis, boom and bust, the personal aftermath of war and the role of women, through the prism of the past. The 1930s saw a decade of poverty, political extremism, economic chaos, racism and anti-semitism set against a backdrop of disastrous climate change and international revolution. The ripples of all these are reflected in our world today. However, the show is delivered with a slice of Irish charm and humor and a side order of catchy sing-a-long tunes.
The show journeys from the aftermath of the Great War to its impact on the world in the thirties, highlighting the birth of the unions and the On To Ottawa Trek, the role of women and the surge in political extremism around the world touching on the Spanish Civil War and lynchings in the Deep South. As always the troupe takes juicy lumps of flavor rich themes, throws them in the Scream Blue Murmur blender and produces a heady cocktail of bittersweet words and sharp beats.
So why the 1930s? Scream says “With recent economic events across the world and a rise in political extremism, the dirty thirties seemed to offer a glimpse of a slightly worn but gilt edged mirror that could proffer an insight into our own 21st century world. We want our audience to ask themselves whether they are really listening to stories that belong to another era. At the same time we want to impregnate your brain with tunes that refuse to be evicted.”
And with audience participation it is a show about you.
Click here to read Dave Lordan's recent interview with the group published in Irish Left Review.
Breaking News!!
Scream Blue Murmur will be bringing the Dreamhouse to Minnesota Fringe Festival in August 2011
2010 sees the sixth major international tour from Scream Blue Murmur. This year the musical poetry group travel from Northern Ireland to begin their adventure by road tripping from Minneapolis to Edmonton Fringe Festival by road performing in Winnipeg, Brandon, Moosejaw and Calgary along the way. They’ll complete the tour by driving all the way back to Minneapolis to catch their flights home.
These international poets have stunned audiences and critics, made many “Must See” lists and won an encore award with “The Morning after the Summer of Love”. Now Scream Blue Murmur present their new show “Something’s Gone Wrong in the Dreamhouse,” inspired by events of the 1930s, with hard-hitting and humorous words, chants and beats; a show to rock you from your seat. Not quite poetry but not quite anything else!
This new show looks at the rise of fascism, the credit crisis, boom and bust, the personal aftermath of war and the role of women, through the prism of the past. The 1930s saw a decade of poverty, political extremism, economic chaos, racism and anti-semitism set against a backdrop of disastrous climate change and international revolution. The ripples of all these are reflected in our world today. However, the show is delivered with a slice of Irish charm and humor and a side order of catchy sing-a-long tunes.
The show journeys from the aftermath of the Great War to its impact on the world in the thirties, highlighting the birth of the unions and the On To Ottawa Trek, the role of women and the surge in political extremism around the world touching on the Spanish Civil War and lynchings in the Deep South. As always the troupe takes juicy lumps of flavor rich themes, throws them in the Scream Blue Murmur blender and produces a heady cocktail of bittersweet words and sharp beats.
So why the 1930s? Scream says “With recent economic events across the world and a rise in political extremism, the dirty thirties seemed to offer a glimpse of a slightly worn but gilt edged mirror that could proffer an insight into our own 21st century world. We want our audience to ask themselves whether they are really listening to stories that belong to another era. At the same time we want to impregnate your brain with tunes that refuse to be evicted.”
And with audience participation it is a show about you.
Click here to read Dave Lordan's recent interview with the group published in Irish Left Review.
