COMMON IS AS COMMON DOES: A MEMOIR

Collaborating Artist / Performer

A co-commission with One Ren and part of Future Paisley. Funded by Creative Scotland.

Cormac worked with 21COMMON on this work for 2 weeks in rehearsals as a collaborating artist and performed the work in Johnstone Town Hall in March/April 2023. It then went on to be performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part of the Made In Scotland Showcase.

Common Is As Common Does: A Memoir Is A Deep And Dirty Dive Into A Family Circle That More Often Resembles A Ring Of Fire. Part Saloon (There’s Crooner Country Classics), Speakeasy (Brush/Scuffing Danceathons) And Bare Knuckle Boxing Ring (It’s Going To Kick Off), Join Us In Our Wild West Sitting Room With The Ones Who Spit And The Ones Born To Fight. This Is The Story Of A Boy. He’s An Atrocity With Big Ideals, He Needed Bread, Not Sun…

This dance momento mori mashes feats of physical endurance with the end of the night at the Grand Ole Oprey. Using tropes of a Western movie, it explores how experience of poverty and violence can shape a man.

A 21 COMMON PRODUCTION

Directed by Lucy Gaizely and Gary Gardiner with Dan Brown.