Janie and I both found this a very entertaining and unusual piece. A one man show written and performed by Arinzé Kene.
Friends who have seen my own little Mithras performance from earlier in the week – click here or below…
The London Mithraeum With The Gresham Society, 15 March 2018
…might expect Misty to be a sort-of jazz standards musical. You’d be so wrong.
So is Misty a play, a rap musical, an installation performance or what? It is sort-of all of those things.
Click here for a link to the Bush resource on this piece/production.
Below is a trailer showing one of the rap numbers from the start of the piece:
Below is a short “meet the writer” interview:
Kene explains that it is a piece about trying to write such a piece…
…which I suppose makes it a post-modern performance piece.
There’s some weird imagery too, with some orange balloon motifs acting as a recurring theme.
I don’t think this piece is aimed at the traditional theatre audience, but we were captivated by it.
We liked the poetry of Arinzé Kene’s language, we liked the music – both of the musicians, Adrian McLeod and Shiloh Coke (you can see them in the City Creature vid above) were excellent – I was especially impressed by Shiloh Coke, a young multi-instrumentalist – she should go far.
Arinzé Kene is a very talented rapper, along with being a talented writer and actor/performer.
At the time of writing Misty has only just opened, so you should be able to get to see it over the next few weeks – highly recommended as an unusual but entertaining theatrical, musical, image-filled evening.