PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD- Weston Studio

Philosophy of the World at the BOVTS Weston Studio doesn’t feel staged so much as detonated in front of you. A Fringe First-winning show from In Bed With My Brother, devised and performed by Nora Alexander, Dora Lynn and Kat Cory, it takes the mythology of The Shaggs, those outsider musicians canonised and ridiculed in equal measure, and turns it into a live act of theatrical self-harm. The Shaggs, whose film rights are somehow held by Tom Cruise, hang over the piece like patron saints of beautiful failure, of art made so sincerely and so far outside accepted language that the world couldn’t decide whether to laugh at it or worship it. That tension runs through the whole show like an exposed wire. This is a piece about making art when nobody wants you to. About dragging something ugly and honest out of yourself and placing it under hot stage lights anyway. About bleeding into the carpet and calling it music and then standing there while people decide whether you’re a genius or a joke.…