Ever wished that you were somewhere else? Ever wished that you were somebody else?
Then Body 115 is for you.
Escaping the rain, a journey on the London Underground becomes a descent into the underworld in this award-winning show.
Summoning a spirit guide in the form of ‘Body 115’, we follow our poet-hero down and out through the sewers and tubes of Kings Cross Station to the heart of Italy.
Part invocation, part rain dance, this poetic odyssey is delivered with a contemporary kick. From the terraces at Millwall to fashionable Milan expect shadowy encounters, iPhone selfies, dodgy connections and chance meetings with a host of poet ghosts.
BODY 115 is a miniature epic, a tale of inner and outer journeys in explicit homage to Dante’s Divine Comedy. From the rain-washed, subterranean underworld of Kings Cross, ‘Body 115’ – the long unidentified victim of the 1987 fire – becomes Virgil to Noble’s Dante. A rhapsodic paean to the trammelling ecstasy of loss. A trans-European odyssey turned safari of the soul.
Body 115, written and performed by Jan Noble, was the winner of the London Pub Theatre Awards for ‘Best Innovative Play’ 2023, and received an Offie Commendation, 2023.
Jan Noble is an award-winning poet making work in theatre, film and audio formats. His poetry has been recorded by producer Craig Leon at Abbey Road studios and featured on the album ‘Cesarians 1’ (2009). His ongoing collaboration with composer Donna McKevitt includes ‘This Is What I Wanted To Give You’ (2016). He has performed at the ICA in London, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York and Teatrino Di Palazzo Grassi in Venice. In 2023 he was awarded the ‘Silver Wyvern’ at Poetry on the Lake with Carol Ann Duffy.
The Creative Team: Directed by Justin Butcher; Lighting: Tom Turner; Sound Design: Jack Arnold.
Jack Studio Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, London, SE4 2DH from Tuesday 7 – Saturday 11 May 2024 at 7.30pm.
Box office: www.brockleyjack.co.uk or 0333 666 3366 (£1.80 fee for phone bookings only)
Tickets: £17, £15 concessions (14+)
Sixty minutes with no interval
Website: https://jannoble.co.uk/
