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Image: Leftovers / Photographer: Manuel Vason    

Image: Photographer: Manuel Vason

Mem Morrison   

Text-based: medium, Physical/visual theatre

SIZE OF COMPANY
2–3 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Mem Morrison

Artists’ Producer, Artsadmin
Cheryl Pierce

ARTISTIC POLICY
Mem Morrison collaborates with a range of multi-disciplinary artists to produce performances in a variety of media for theatres, site-specific spaces and galleries. With a strong emphasis on design and colour, the work often draws upon personal history and environment to evoke the complexities of acknowledging and accepting cultural difference.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Independent on Sunday

Evening Standard

Attitude Magazine

CURRENT PRODUCTION
Explores culture and cultural difference and how this is expressed through food. Houmous meets the full English breakfast in a gentle exploration of how cultures meet and mingle, eat, socialise and influence each other. (70 mins, no interval, 1 on stage, 2–3 on the road.)

FUTURE PRODUCTION
Inspired by a childhood fixation with wedding ceremonies and based on found film footage of family weddings attended by Morrison over the past 30 years, is a performance installation with film, live music and a lot of guests.

WRAP-AROUND
Workshops, talks and residencies focusing on making autobiographical work particularly for young people aged 15–25 years.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2005 Germany ()

TOURING AVAILABILITY
from January 2008
from 2009

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