Byron Vincent / Instagramming the Apocalypse
Friday 27 March - 8.15pm / The Front Room
Tickets £12/£10 or buy a day pass for £24/£18 and see Tayo Aluko (6.30pm) and Ellie Scanlan (10pm) as well
Suitable for under 16+
Who do you trust when the news is fake, your partner is cheating on you and global politics is an exploding clown car? Byron Vincent is diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, but with dying icons, impending climate catastrophe and that bloke from Home Alone Two in charge of world’s largest nuclear arsenal; isn’t blind panic the only sane response?
The world is falling apart so Byron is desperate to hold his relationship together, even if it means playing STI roulette and stalking a bodybuilder.
It’s a glib postmodern age in which cynicism is cool, modern life is rubbish and sincerity is for suckers; but as concepts like truth, peace and hope become risible anachronisms, maybe it’s time to re-evaluate our perspective. In a post-satire age, what’s so funny about peace love and understanding?
Written and performed by Byron Vincent
Produced by Alice Carter
Supported by: Unlimited, Farnham Maltings, Arts Council England, Inn Crowd
Byron Vincent is a writer, performer, broadcaster and activist with a long and varied career. He spent the naughts doing spoken word at music and literary festivals for which he was picked as one of BBC poetry season's New Talent choices.
In more recent years Byron has turned to theatre working as writer, director and performer for the RSC, BAC and other notable acronyms.
Byron is passionate social activist with lived experience of issues around poverty and mental health. He has written and presented many documentaries for BBC Radio 4, often exploring the social problems arising out of poverty, ghettoization and mental ill health. Most of which can still be found on iplayer.
Byron is a proud ambassador for mental health charities Rethink and Mental Health Foundation. His show Live Before You Die tackles male suicide. He is currently working on a memoir.
byronvincent.com
Tickets £12/£10 or buy a day pass for £24/£18 and see Tayo Aluko (6.30pm) and Ellie Scanlan (10pm) as well
Suitable for under 16+
Who do you trust when the news is fake, your partner is cheating on you and global politics is an exploding clown car? Byron Vincent is diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, but with dying icons, impending climate catastrophe and that bloke from Home Alone Two in charge of world’s largest nuclear arsenal; isn’t blind panic the only sane response?
The world is falling apart so Byron is desperate to hold his relationship together, even if it means playing STI roulette and stalking a bodybuilder.
It’s a glib postmodern age in which cynicism is cool, modern life is rubbish and sincerity is for suckers; but as concepts like truth, peace and hope become risible anachronisms, maybe it’s time to re-evaluate our perspective. In a post-satire age, what’s so funny about peace love and understanding?
Written and performed by Byron Vincent
Produced by Alice Carter
Supported by: Unlimited, Farnham Maltings, Arts Council England, Inn Crowd
Byron Vincent is a writer, performer, broadcaster and activist with a long and varied career. He spent the naughts doing spoken word at music and literary festivals for which he was picked as one of BBC poetry season's New Talent choices.
In more recent years Byron has turned to theatre working as writer, director and performer for the RSC, BAC and other notable acronyms.
Byron is passionate social activist with lived experience of issues around poverty and mental health. He has written and presented many documentaries for BBC Radio 4, often exploring the social problems arising out of poverty, ghettoization and mental ill health. Most of which can still be found on iplayer.
Byron is a proud ambassador for mental health charities Rethink and Mental Health Foundation. His show Live Before You Die tackles male suicide. He is currently working on a memoir.
byronvincent.com
