Perturbation
Guest performance
by The Writer’s Mark (Brighton, UK)
This is a guest performance, hosted at Teatro Fisico on a day when our own shows are not running. It is not part of the Teatro Fisico season, but a one-off collaboration in the spirit of supporting physical theatre and The Writer’s Mark.
Monday 17 August · 4:00 PM
Fruitmarket, 45 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DF
Age Guidance: 12+
What Ever Happened to Sheila Legge?
Coming straight from the Adelaide Salon Gala at The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, The Writer’s Mark presents Perturbation — a physical theatre performance paying homage to Sheila Legge (1911–1949), a writer and performance artist known for her involvement in the Surrealist Movement. The piece draws on key moments from Legge’s life.
Meet Sheila, a young aspiring artist who longs to be part of something — the Surrealists. Watch as she moves through space and time, leaving behind her forming world as a wife and mother to join the growing Surrealist movement of 1936.
Through personified mime, physical theatre and prop manipulation, Natasha Higdon and Stephanie Prieto Trincado move through the space — melting and shifting through surrealist fragments of Sheila Legge’s life, from her friendship with David Gascoyne to her meeting with Salvador Dalí. Moments in time that shaped art, literature and theatre, as the performers seek to answer: what happened to Sheila Legge?
Tickets: via Eventbrite (link)
Company: The Writer’s Mark, Brighton
www.thewritersmark.co.uk
INSTAGRAM: @thewritersmark
The Writer’s Mark is a Surrealist company based in Brighton, UK, celebrating and exploring the worlds of surreal writers and visionaries of the past through art and theatre. The company delves into the psychology and visceral imprint of each writer or artist — their legacy, what they leave behind, and how this can be interpreted through physical theatre, art, mime, text and ensemble work.
This performance is rooted in the societal pressures placed on women during the 1930s, alongside an unwavering sense of hope and the desire to belong to something special.
Natasha Higdon notes: “It is an honour to celebrate Sheila Legge’s contribution to the United Kingdom’s Surrealist thinkers here in Edinburgh. Recent research indicates she was integral to the planning of the First International Surrealist Exhibition (1936), and was asked to be involved by the late David Gascoyne. I can see her vividly, alone in her bedsit in Earl’s Court, waiting to get the call to be involved.”