The King of Beauty
"I hide my sickness- I have no emotions or feelings. I’m hiding my sickness with make up."
Set down a long banquet table, the King invites the audience to join him in a meal of make up. The audience sit at the table as he describes how life has made him empty inside, and he begins to eat lipstick and consume beauty products in a bid to fill himself up as well as to attain the unachievable ideal of beauty.
Challenging and confrontational while managing to remain vulnerable and compelling, the King of Beauty shows how modern life can make us hollow, how – in this consumerist world – we have been consumed by products and how our true beauty remains in what we give to the world and not what we take out of it.
Segments of the piece have also been performed as cabaret (see below).
Previous showings:
Apr 2011 Marlborough Theatre, Brighton
Oct 2010 Stockholm Fringe Festival, Teater Republic, Stockholm, Sweden
Jan 2010 Excerpt performed at Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London
Jul 2009 As part of MA Contemporary Performance showcase, Toynbee Studios, London
"I hide my sickness- I have no emotions or feelings. I’m hiding my sickness with make up."
Set down a long banquet table, the King invites the audience to join him in a meal of make up. The audience sit at the table as he describes how life has made him empty inside, and he begins to eat lipstick and consume beauty products in a bid to fill himself up as well as to attain the unachievable ideal of beauty.
Challenging and confrontational while managing to remain vulnerable and compelling, the King of Beauty shows how modern life can make us hollow, how – in this consumerist world – we have been consumed by products and how our true beauty remains in what we give to the world and not what we take out of it.
Segments of the piece have also been performed as cabaret (see below).
Previous showings:
Apr 2011 Marlborough Theatre, Brighton
Oct 2010 Stockholm Fringe Festival, Teater Republic, Stockholm, Sweden
Jan 2010 Excerpt performed at Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London
Jul 2009 As part of MA Contemporary Performance showcase, Toynbee Studios, London
