Dave Winters’ plays (eg Golden Slumbers)
posted by Alp at Sunday, May 21, 2006
21 May 2006
About this
Something unusual was happening in SW Wales when I was a child – subcultures, social experiments, naked hippies dancing around maypoles. I'm researching a PhD project into remembrances of things past - how our sense of the past informs our sense of self. This enquiry presumes that the past is not fixed, rather it is partly constructed through a shared or collective consciousness, which is why I’m inviting you now to share your memories of certain events, moments, and ideas. A childhood in Wales gave a lot of us a unique experience and a lot of the ‘hippy’ kids, I think, have a wonderfully insightful way of perceiving and interacting with the world. But we also have a very different past from many of our peers, and some ‘site specific’ hang-ups! There were some amazingly off-the-wall characters around and some pretty weird shit happened. I’d like to know which bits you remember, in words and photos. Some of this stuff might be sensitive, so if you are posting photos or texts or relevant transcripts or notes or poems or songs (you could scan them or send them to me ‘snail-mail’ – I will be very careful) onto this weblog please be aware of that, and do so with an open mind.Previous Posts
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Ah yes, Golden Slumbers. I can now admit that I in fact played Florian (Florian, Florian, Aureate Laureate, lost, lost in the radiant shades of the Arcadian Glades...) in the blockbuster smash hit Dave Winters play of the same name, the one that was staged in the Shed several times and once on a real stage in a real church hall somewhere else - the one where Giles' head was transplanted into a T.V., Shani (rest her soul) did a striptease (it was her second outing: I had conned her into the first with Annette in the BoaRds April Fools Show at Abercych Hall a few months previously for a bottle of Black Label and a couple of quid, heh heh), featuring Jeremy as the evil Von Volkswagen, Martina as the wicked queen and Anne as Perenelle, Florian's erstwhle lover - no, hang on, was that Golden Slumbers, or was that the one where Giles was an elevator operator whose lines were mostly "Going Down" with a Jean Michel Jarre tune in the background - funny how these things blur with time. Yes, another blue pill, thanks nurse, and maybe one of those yellow ones too... Oh no, that's right, it was a mushroom, its all coming back to me now...
the irony! that giles's head should be transplanted into a TV! he has a million channels now...
Was Golden Slumbers a satire of 'the scene'? If so, how?
Dave
Thanks for your comments. It would be nice to scan some of the original play and if you could give us a precis, so much the better! Do you remember the antics that surrounded the performance and your response to seeing it performed? Please, for the uninitiated, and for those of us who were very little and only remember some pretty wild costumes, tell us more!
Who, What, When, Where, Why?
Love
anna
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