| Notching
up the cultural roadkill with ambulance-chasing poetics and
stunning visuals, Poetry Boyband Aisle16 return with twelve
white-knuckle micro-lectures on the achingly hip subject of
contemporary verse. It’s Edutainment, innit.
Poetry
Boyband takes previously unthinkable thoughts – like
chartering an expedition across Henry Miller’s face
and explaining why Alastair Campbell is a poet (it’s
to do with love) – and uploads them directly to your
brain.
Following
the spectacular success of their Edinburgh Fringe show and
sold out shows in London, Aisle16: Poetry Boyband (Remastered)
will tour the UK in 2006.
Reviewers
have been fighting to lavish stars upon the show. Luke Wright,
Ross Sutherland, Joel Stickley and Chris Hicks use the flashest
costumes, the most daring choreography and the most up-to-date,
digitally-enhanced ‘edutainment’ techniques to
bring verse to the unversed.
Poetry
Boyband (Remastered) is better than ever, including a rhyming
stand-off between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud to see who is
the daddy of all psychoanalysts, as Aisle16 achieve the feat
of putting poetry where it so obviously belongs - on a stage,
in a white suit and with girls snatching at its ankles. As
2005 body rocks into 2006 their stated mission to Make Poetry
History comes ever closer to a satisfactory conclusion.
www.poetryboyband.com
"I
had forgotten how much I like poetry and how wondeful it is
to hear." Sandi Toksvig, Sunday Telegraph
"The
most ingenious PowerPoint presentation ever."
Independent on Sunday
"Very
Funny. All of it is slickly delivered and tautly choreographed"
The Evening Standard
"Brilliantly
ironic ... one of the funniest things you'll see." The
List ****
"I
heard mutterings of 'they're just Boyzone with poems.' But
200 years ago they were saying that about Keats and Shelley."
The Times
"A
new scabrous high" Time Out *****
TIME
OUT CRITICS' CHOICE OF THE YEAR 2005
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