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Chloe Bezer’s The Slow Songs Make Me Sad is gently charming however surprisingly revelatory too at VAULT Festival
“On a scale of 1-10, how stressful do you find this experience?”
The Slow Songs Make Me Sad helpfully comes with a sub-title to do the job of summarising the present for me – a one-woman comedy musical about post-natal melancholy. But as is commonly the best way, the outline solely scratches the floor of what this piece of theatre is, one thing moderately distinctive within the scope of its private revelation and its format too, this isn’t your common comedy musical.
For author/performer Chloe Bezer is a musician, a improbable cellist to be exact right here, and a musician who doesn’t prefer to take heed to music as a result of…the sluggish songs make her unhappy. And while her present centres on her personal expertise of post-natal melancholy, it additionally makes use of it as a springboard to delve into a few of lesser-shared truths about new motherhood and psychological well being.
Dipping into her personal childhood, in addition to her ongoing experiences together with her youngsters, Bezer attracts the threads concerning the intense emotional connection that accompanies making music, certainly the artwork of efficiency itself too, and there’s one thing deeply fascinating concerning the intimacy of the storytelling right here, I used to be transfixed at occasions.
Tom Malcolm Wright’s course ensures a measure of selection comes via the presentation although, to lighten the tone considerably. Some gently amusing forays into the viewers are charmingly (or terrifyingly if what coulrophobic means…) carried out and the inventiveness with which Bezer’s songs utilise so many alternative methods of enjoying the cello is all the time a deal with.
Running time: 60 minutes (with out interval)
The Slow Songs Make Me Sad is reserving at VAULT Festival till ninth March
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