Chris Goode / Christopher Knowles
performances by two Barque poets:
YEAH BOOM: A Christopher Knowles Reader
devised and performed by Chris Goode
Born in 1959, the autistic writer and visual artist Christopher Knowles was just nineteen years old when the poet John Ashbery described him as "a major figure of the New York avant-garde". By that time, Knowles had already been collaborating for five years with the then-emerging theatre director Robert Wilson, and he went on to contribute texts and performances to many of Wilson's major works of the 70s, including the seminal Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach in 1976.
Despite the robust critical acclaim for Knowles's compelling and idiosyncratic work (much of which is collected in the volume Typings 1974-77) he has now dropped somewhat out of view, and his profile in the UK is particularly low given the iconic status of the Wilson productions on which Knowles worked.
Yeah Boom is an attempt to bring some of this remarkable work back into circulation. In an hour-long piece, theatre artist Chris Goode performs a number of Knowles's texts, including extracts from A Letter for Queen Victoria and Einstein on the Beach. Pieces taken from Typings 1974-77 range from Knowles's charming letters to friends and family, through his strange and often hilarious variations on mid-70s pop songs, to the vertiginous pile-up of his sound-text poem 'Get Wreck'. The production features a sound-score specially created by Chris Goode, who also reflects on the unique experience of becoming 'A Christopher Knowles reader'.
Friday 13th: there will be an opportunity to share responses to Yeah Boom and to Knowles's work, in a post-show discussion led by Lynne Kendrick (Central School of Speech & Drama).
Saturday 14th: Yeah Boom will be followed at 9.30 by a substantial solo reading from the unyieldingly brilliant Scottish poet Peter Manson. The reading is a benefit in support of the Writers Forum workshop, which meets at CPT.
Yeah Boom: A Christopher Knowles Reader is at
Camden People's Theatre
58-60 Hampstead Road
London NW1 2PY
nearest tube: Euston Sq / Warren St
YEAH BOOM: A Christopher Knowles Reader
devised and performed by Chris Goode
Born in 1959, the autistic writer and visual artist Christopher Knowles was just nineteen years old when the poet John Ashbery described him as "a major figure of the New York avant-garde". By that time, Knowles had already been collaborating for five years with the then-emerging theatre director Robert Wilson, and he went on to contribute texts and performances to many of Wilson's major works of the 70s, including the seminal Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach in 1976.
Despite the robust critical acclaim for Knowles's compelling and idiosyncratic work (much of which is collected in the volume Typings 1974-77) he has now dropped somewhat out of view, and his profile in the UK is particularly low given the iconic status of the Wilson productions on which Knowles worked.
Yeah Boom is an attempt to bring some of this remarkable work back into circulation. In an hour-long piece, theatre artist Chris Goode performs a number of Knowles's texts, including extracts from A Letter for Queen Victoria and Einstein on the Beach. Pieces taken from Typings 1974-77 range from Knowles's charming letters to friends and family, through his strange and often hilarious variations on mid-70s pop songs, to the vertiginous pile-up of his sound-text poem 'Get Wreck'. The production features a sound-score specially created by Chris Goode, who also reflects on the unique experience of becoming 'A Christopher Knowles reader'.
Friday 13th: there will be an opportunity to share responses to Yeah Boom and to Knowles's work, in a post-show discussion led by Lynne Kendrick (Central School of Speech & Drama).
Saturday 14th: Yeah Boom will be followed at 9.30 by a substantial solo reading from the unyieldingly brilliant Scottish poet Peter Manson. The reading is a benefit in support of the Writers Forum workshop, which meets at CPT.
Yeah Boom: A Christopher Knowles Reader is at
Camden People's Theatre
58-60 Hampstead Road
London NW1 2PY
nearest tube: Euston Sq / Warren St
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