PRODUCTIONS

PRODUCTIONS

TRAMP

WEIRD VULNERABILITY. An essay about TRAMP by Mette Garfield.
OVERGADEN Institute of Contemporary Art hosted performance duo Molly and Me with their absurd and accomplished touring musical performance Tramp. They are dressed all in white, looking like brides or confirmation candidates. Their voices are fine and feminine in this anonymous gallery space. But this is where all purity and gracefulness ends. If you pay attention you´ll notice that their lyrics are ruthless and twisted as they perform accompanied by ukulele. Providing humorous descriptions of everyday situations dealing with friendship, consumerism, suicide attempts, love and animals. In Tramp they have combined the absurd, Dadaist tradition of sound and nonsense poetry with political, satirical undertones, adding a feel of montage and cabaret to the performance. One catchy tune replaces another and gets spiced up by monologues/ speeches directed at the audience. READ MORE

TRAMP filmed at Hygum Art Musum, Denmark, 2011 [ 5 min extract] View video



A SLICE OF SALVATION

The Arches, October 2008.
Duration: 40 minutes

A continuation from Its Not About Us this show delves further into the murky depths of two people trapped into making sense of their relationship with the past, their role as performer and each other. A whirlwind of macabre acts and crude probings unravel layers of complexities such as how to cry like a baby and jump like a goat. Themes of beauty and entrapment are explored with an influence from the book Downfall by Per Olov Enquist. An eternal, unseverable union and odd monstrous pairings figure prominently with child-like games and songs interspersed.

Arches Live Festival´08

A-PART
Brunswick Hotel, Glasgow, May 2008
Duration: 1 hour

Set in two hotel rooms we performed a series of mirrored tasks, dressed in the same costumes.
Using a picture of a Burmese masked boy affected by the tropical cyclone in May 2008, we attempted to recreate the mask onto ourselves with white China clay. Looking at conflicting images of melancholia and disaster this repeated action evokes images of the ensnared clown.
This act was looped over an hour using slapstick and a song of `longing´ culminating in the swapping of rooms. Using the telephones in each room we made the link between us from isolated strangers to the discovery of each others existence and the reflection of the boy's masks onto our faces.

Get A Room Festival 2008

A-Part [ 6 min extract of 1 hour performance] View video

IT´S NOT ABOUT USCentre of Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, April 2007
Duration: 55 minutes
A shape-shifting universe of rhythmic diabolical humour, high school musicals and camp horror create a ridiculous competition between two women for their audience´s attention. Within a stripped down environment distinctive sound devices appear, odd and lavish costumes to plain underwear are worn, as they sing and scantily dance along to their bizarre stories.
Unable to escape the confines of their performance which includes conciliatory identity swapping this darkly humorous and absurd antagonism gradually exposes the facts and fictions inherent to all human relations.

Supported by the Glasgow Visual Artists Grant Scheme and CCA, Glasgow

IT'S NOT ABOUT US [10 min extract from 1 hour performance ]View video

LIST OF CONTENT:
A SLICE OF SALVATION, 2008.
A-PART 2008
IT´S NOT ABOUT US 2007

Besides performances
Molly and Me write music and play live concerts.

A continuation from Its Not About Us this show delves further into the murky depths of two people trapped into making sense of their relationship with the past, their role as performer and each other. A whirlwind of macabre acts and crude probings unravel layers of complexities such as how to cry like a baby and jump like a goat. Themes of beauty and entrapment are explored with an influence from the book Downfall by Per Olov Enquist. An eternal, unseverable union and odd monstrous pairings figure prominently with child-like games and songs interspersed.

A-PART
Brunswick Hotel, Glasgow, May 2008
Duration: 1 hour

Set in two hotel rooms we performed a series of mirrored tasks, dressed in the same costumes.
Using a picture of a Burmese masked boy affected by the tropical cyclone in May 2008, we attempted to recreate the mask onto ourselves with white China clay. Looking at conflicting images of melancholia and disaster this repeated action evokes images of the ensnared clown.
This act was looped over an hour using slapstick and a song of `longing´ culminating in the swapping of rooms. Using the telephones in each room we made the link between us from isolated strangers to the discovery of each others existence and the reflection of the boy's masks onto our faces.

Get A Room Festival 2008

A-Part [ 6 min extract of 1 hour performance] View video

A shape-shifting universe of rhythmic diabolical humour, high school musicals and camp horror create a ridiculous competition between two women for their audience´s attention. Within a stripped down environment distinctive sound devices appear, odd and lavish costumes to plain underwear are worn, as they sing and scantily dance along to their bizarre stories.
Unable to escape the confines of their performance which includes conciliatory identity swapping this darkly humorous and absurd antagonism gradually exposes the facts and fictions inherent to all human relations.