Irish Times Intimate History Review
See below or click on the link for this nicely written short piece from our Kinsale Arts Week 2008 visit.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2008/0715/1215940928809.html
Irish Times - July 15 - Sara Keating
Elsewhere, the programme gave rise to more personal than public moments of reflection, as with Jake Oldershaw's magnificent Intimate Histories , a 10-minute theatre performance for one. Here, there are a selection of six performances to choose from, set up on a quirkily designed menu. When your order is placed, your performance is freshly prepared for you, and you are invited into a dark room to take a seat with a stranger (Oldershaw himself, the performer), while the cabaret-style storytelling performance begins.
My starter proved to be a charming and chilling Sweeney Todd -style story of scientific discovery, while my main course was a sweet personal serenade whose heartbreaking ending spoke poignantly to the concept of fleeting connection that is at the core of this innovative, intimate performance. Having originated in Birmingham, the universal appeal to human relationships that Intimate Histories taps into has become, deservedly, an internationally applauded attraction.