Klepto: One Man's Journey Through Retail Hell
Barbican Library, Barbican Centre, London. Poet & performer Steve Tasane in a cabaret-style show fuses confessional comedy and performance poetry, on 17th November 2006 at 8pm.
www.barbican.org.uk
Tel: 0845 120 7500 - Tickets £10/£8
"An upbeat and deeply funny show on shop-lifting. Mixing stand-up, poetry and large trolleyfuls of fiction with true confessions of a former shop-lifter, acclaimed performer Steve Tasane shares a therapy trip he seldom had to pay for.
"a metaphoric masterpiece of hope, helplessness, ambition and desire." Cheltenham Festival Daily Review
In the guise of a reformed kleptomaniac, Tasane explores the phenomenon of shop-lifting, combining real life experience with close-ups at celebrity shop-lifters and notorious cheats including Richard Madeley and Major Charles Ingram. The show takes us to the heart of Steve's childhood, reared by a single mum on a Yorkshire council estate, to present-day obsessions with retail therapy and bling.
Steve Tasane is a writer and performer who has appeared all over the country, from Glastonbury Festival to The Barbican, and has been featured on Channel 4, BBC1, Radio 4 and Radio 1. His previous one-man show, 'The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner', has been acclaimed by the Edinburgh Fringe and Time Out. He is a former founder of Atomic Lip, 'poetry's first pop group' (The Independent) as featured on Channel 4's LitPop. He is author of the collection Bleeding Heart and his poetry is featured in Oral with Jarvis Cocker and Benjamin Zephaniah.
Klepto was originally developed as a work-in-progress for Survivors Poetry, Cheltenham Literature Festival and Soho Theatre, after which Tasane received funding from Arts Council England to develop it into a one-person show, with artistic direction by Melanie Abrahams and production by renaissance one.
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