Book description
Mess: Josephine is putting on a play - Boris and Sistahl help. It's
about anorexia; but don't let that put you off - they are used to the
big issues - and today they will tackle a particularly thin elephant in
the room. Obsessed with obsession, addiction, and not wanting to get out
of bed, Mess is a play with songs from The Stage's 2010 Best Solo
Performer Award winner Caroline Horton. You're Not Like the Other Girls,
Chrissy: January 1945. Paris has been liberated. Christiane, an
eccentric and acutely myopic Parisian waits at Gare Du Nord for a ticket
to England to be reunited with her fiance. Whilst she waits, this
gloriously irrepressible mademoiselle recounts the story of her love
affair with Cyril, a tongue-tied English teacher from Staffordshire.
You're Not Like Other Girl's Chrissy is a fond, comical and ultimately
poignant portrait of one woman's experience of love and war. This
programme text coincides with China Plate Theatre's production of Mess,
which is at the Traverse in Edinburgh for August 2012 and then tours the
UK until the end of September. You're Not Like Other Girls, Chrissy will
play at the Bristol Old Vic for a week with another week on tour to come
after. ... gathers in both charm and emotional engagement until even a
hardened hack may be on the brink of tears. Winsome in all the best
ways, this Horton may not be hearing a "Who?" for very long
Financial Times A wryly self-deprecating piece -- Neil Cooper Herald
20120806 Exquisite in its sensitivity Scotsman A touching insight into
the cruel grip of an eating disorder and a sense of the near
impossibility of curing it in anything but the most patient and
painstaking way. -- Mark Fisher Scotland on Sunday 20121013 This ...
comes perilously close to genius and announces Horton as a major, major
talent. -- 13. 8.12 Time Out Caroline Horton is a writer and
performer, based in Birmingham. The pieces she creates begin with an
idiosyncratic, personal story from which something emerges that is
universally moving and funny. Always looking to expose a story's messy
mixture of comedy, tragedy and whatever lies in between in a playful
stage language that is visually and textually rich and immediate,
Horton's work is as accessible as it is insightful and has been
presented at theatres, village halls and festivals in the UK and abroad.
Horton has recently been made an artistic associate at The Bush theatre
and is a member of The Optimists network of young theatre-makers in the
Midlands.
