May 2009
In May 2009, the six members of Farnham Playwrights Collective each created short or durational site specific works that might occupy unusual and neglected spaces at Farnham Maltings as part of its annual one day festival, Farnham Creates. Collectively entitled Lonely Spaces, MCH's contribution to the project was a recorded piece, entitled IMPORTANT PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS TAPE. On a dictaphone in a room we hear the voices of two women. They have sent a tape to a third woman, a certain Mrs Pallant, in which they explain - only slightly apologetically - why Mrs Pallant's husband, James, will not be coming home
IMPORTANT PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS TAPE was first presented in the Wenham Room at Farnham Maltings on 9 May, 2009. Performers on the original recording were Jo Bowis (as Miss X) and Kathryn McGarr (as Shelley).
The piece was presented a second time as part of Kill no more pigeons than you can eat, a series of interventions by the Red Velvet Curtain Cult at Benjamin Franklin House, London, on 22 May 2009. This time the dictaphone was located in the ladies toilets.
IMPORTANT PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS TAPE
as first presented in the Wenham Room at Farnham Maltings, 9 May 2009
Photo © MCH, 2009
Below: Kill no more pigeons than you can eat, curated by Lili Spain and Sarah Grainger-Jones
