Purcell-Gates, L (2017) The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak. Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol, UK, 25 - 28 January 2017.
| Item Type: | Performance |
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| Creators: | Purcell-Gates, L |
| Abstract: | The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak is a unique fusion of puppetry and contemporary chamber opera detailing the story of real-life 18th-century French medical anomaly Tarrare. Wattle & Daub collaborated with pathologist Dr Alan Bates, award-winning playwright Hattie Naylor, internationally-renowned pianist and composer Tom Poster, Bristol University's Medical Humanities programme, and an academic advisory panel. Through a darkly compelling yet riotously enjoyable show they explore the rise of the autopsy, and its influence on the medical model of the doctor-patient relationship, through the case study of a medical 'monster' and the doctor who treated him. |
| Official URL: | http://www.wattleanddaub.co.uk/tarrare |
| Date: | January 2017 |
| Funders: | The Wellcome Trust, Arts Council England, Tobacco Factory Theatres |
| Event Location: | Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol, UK |
| Additional Locations: | Wilton's Music Hall, London, 30 January - 18 February 2017, The North Wall, Oxford, 8 - 9 March 2017, Michael Tippet Centre, Bath Spa Live, Bath, 10 March 2017 |
| Note: | Laura Purcell-Gates was PI for the Wellcome Trust-funded project. This research was funded by the Wellcome Trust’s Small Arts Award (£30,000) with extension funding of £40,000 awarded by the Wellcome Trust in 2016 for a UK tour of the show with the related public engagement event Performing the Freak: a dialogue between theatre and science about monstrosity, to be held at Bart’s Pathology Museum in London, at the medical humanities event Medicine Unboxed in Cheltenham, and in collaboration with medical departments at 8 universities across the UK. Additional funding of £15,000 was awarded by Arts Council England for the development of the show. |
| Divisions: | Bath School of Music and Performing Arts |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Feb 2017 18:57 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2021 09:45 |
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