509 Arts
My Last Car
Tue 4 - Sat 8 Oct 2011
Helen Martin Studio: £9.50 (£7.50) (+ booking fee)
Production Company: 509 Arts
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CloseDo you remember your first car? How about your last? What if your current car were your last? Climate change and oil depletion make this a real possibility as we approach the end of the road for car ownership. Is there a future for the internal combustion engine in the 21st century?
My Last Car explores our love affair with the motor car through human stories of near misses, breakdowns, green lights and giving way. Featuring commissioned video and a motor-soundscape, the star of this performance installation is a soft-top Rover 216 Cabriolet broken down in to its component parts leaving just the shell of a ‘ghost car’. Things of beauty that are rarely seen, the washers, cogs, pistons and curios are presented to the audience as if treasures from a bygone age.
What will the world look like without the automobile? … and where do we go from here?
My Last Car is both gallery installation – open most afternoons – and theatre event performed daily, it will take you on a telling journey of discovery, memory and love.
Installation Opening Times
Tue 4: 10.30am – 6pm
Wed 5: 10.30am-12.30pm, then 3-6pm
Thu 6: 10.30am-12.30pm, then 3-6pm
Fri 7: 10.30am-6pm
Sat 8: 10.30am-1pm, then 3.30pm-6pm
Listen to Director Al Dix talk to the Knowledge Centre about My Last Car
My Last Car is a 509 Arts production in partnership with Warwick Arts Centre, imove – the Cultural Olympiad in Yorkshire, Tipping Point – a leading arts and climate change organisation, Pioneer Projects and Ryedale Folk Museum.
The matinee performance at 2pm on Sat 8 Oct will be followed by an aftershow discussion facilitated by TippingPoint. This will be FREE and in the National Grid Room.
Running time: Approx 1 hour
Dates & Times
| Tue 4 Oct | 7:45pm | |||
| Wed 5 Oct | 1:30pm | |||
| Wed 5 Oct | 7:45pm | |||
| Thu 6 Oct | 1:30pm | |||
| Thu 6 Oct | 7:45pm | |||
| Fri 7 Oct | 7:45pm | |||
| Sat 8 Oct | 2:00pm | |||
| Sat 8 Oct | 7:45pm |
1 Comment
Knowing extremely little about cars, I was surprised by how poignant and touching this show was. Hillarious in places and thoroughly entertaining it really makes you think about how so much of our lives revolve around cars... I recommend it for anyone and everyone!
Katie at 5:52pm on Wed 5th Oct 2011