Damien Thirst and James Alexander McKenzie transform thier flat into a gallery for DIY exhibition ‘Decoy House’. All Welcome. Opening times 12-5pm. Contact James for the address via the Contact page.
Premiere screening of Glen Thomson’s documentary film ‘Orcadia: A Fenris and Ragnar Story’ and Q&A. The event accompanied Fenris Wolf & Ragnar Thorfinn’s work in the Scotland Small? exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy. The event took place at the Hawthornden Lecture Theatre at The Scottish National Gallery/Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. Thanks and credit to Ross Macdougall for the recording.
Award-winning artist, inventive writer and dry-witted scavenger poet with an appetite for absurdity, James Alexander McKenzie presents an unusual solo show that is a blend of theatre, spoken word and stand-up…
🎪 𝐉𝐈𝐌𝐌𝐘 𝐌𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐒 🎪
Jimmy Mack Follies is a variety show with a focus on theatrical, deadpan spoken word performances.
Parodying alternative representations of masculinity, and drawing from an expansive pool of source material that includes his experience working as a barman, McKenzie’s offbeat line-up presents performances from…
𝘋𝘳 𝘑𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘏𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦 (a ridiculous barfly);
𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰 (a self-deprecating, lamenting mess);
𝘈𝘪𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯 (a barman at a chaotic, nightmarish airport bar);
𝘎𝘳𝘪𝘮 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳 (a cloaked skeleton desperate to be assigned a different post);
𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘬𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘪 (a caricature of controversial poet Charles Bukowski).
These acts are threaded together by McKenzie acting as…
𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴.
Jimmy Mack Follies is a wry, provocative, philosophical, comical and surreal one-man multi-act.
FREE
21-23, 25-28 August 15:20 (not 24th)
Natural Food Kafe (venue 415)
55 Clerk Street, Newington
Edinburgh
EH8 9JQ