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In the last of the Transgressive Bodies series, Mat Fraser presented
a
powerful indictment of society's relationship to the issues of disability,
played out during the strict rules of the dinner party.
What happens when a Disabled Person, in deep veined thrombosis
of denial to that Societal violation, attempts to pass the tests
of etiquette inherent in
the traditional Dinner Party?.......the microcosmic experiment quickly
breaks
down, exposing layers of pretence, fear, and then the phases of
desperation, ostracisation, confrontation, and finally naked violence.
Mat Fraser's The Dinner Party, turned from the facade of frivolity,
to a freak show of ferocious finality, in a terrifying evening of
exposure to modern
polite culture
Mat Fraser is a multi disciplined performer. His recent work includes
his one
man play, Sealboy;Freak, which has toured Nationally and abroad,
Andorra at
The Young Vic, and a National tour and London run of a devised play
by the
experimental Group K Theatre Co, Presto, in which he played Jonathan
Swift and Gulliver. Recent screen appearances include U.S TV1 Helen
Of Troy, Channel 4 Metrosexuality, BBC1's Doctors, BBC2’s
Urban Myth, his award winning documentary for Channel 4, Born Freak,
and is a regular contributor on BBC1’s Heaven and Earth Show.
He’s just shown a major new documentary on cage fighting in
Britain for
Channel 4, and is about to start filming a 90 minute drama, called
Are You looking At Me?, for BBC 2.
Transgressive Bodies was supported by The Arts Council and Southwark
Council.
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