{"id":1813,"date":"2015-06-01T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2015\/06\/run-a-battle-royale-memorial.html\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T19:10:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T19:10:32","slug":"run-a-battle-royale-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2015\/06\/run-a-battle-royale-memorial.html\/","title":{"rendered":"RUN: A Battle Royale Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"I’m very excited to announce the scratch for my first live poetry show, RUN: A Battle Royale Memorial<\/a>!

Thanks to a grant from the Poetry School’s Lo & Behold Fund<\/a><\/b>, I’ve been able to complete writing for the piece, engage the fantastic Tamar Saphra<\/a> as a director, and book a venue to try out the show.

(7.30pm, 23rd June 2015 at the Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon<\/b>, since you asked. Seats for the scratch are very limited, so RSVP to kirsten.irving@gmail.com if you’d like to come.)

Hang on. What is<\/i> Battle Royale<\/i><\/b>, and what does poetry have to do with it?

Way before The Hunger Games, Japanese author Koushun Takami wrote a novel in which schoolchildren were sent to an island by a totalitarian state, randomly assigned weapons and given three days to kill until only one stood standing.

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Almost certainly influenced by Lord of the Flies<\/i>, Battle Royale<\/i> was a controversial hit, and spawned a manga comic, as well as an acclaimed 2000 movie, directed by Kinji Fukasaku.

Now the tale has met page, art and celluloid, I want to introduce it to poetry. Run: A Battle Royale Memorial<\/i> is my attempt to romp across genre and take both the movie and poetry to new audiences, through a fragmented, semi-interactive experience.<\/div>

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It will be red, black and dark as a moonless night. Also there will, in the spirit of the game, be party bags. PARTY BAGS.

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Also performing new work on the night will be performance artist Rebecca Wigmore<\/a>. More about her piece here<\/a>.<\/div>

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More information about the scratch can be found at the dedicated site for the show<\/a>. To read around the process and the movie itself, visit runbattleroyale.tumblr.com<\/a>.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’m very excited to announce the scratch for my first live poetry show, RUN: A Battle Royale Memorial!Thanks to a grant from the Poetry School’s Lo & Behold Fund, I’ve been able to complete writing for the piece, engage the fantastic Tamar Saphra as a director, and book a venue to try out the show.(7.30pm, … Continue reading “RUN: A Battle Royale Memorial”<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[516,426,517,495,518,519,520],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-royale","category-kirsten-irving","category-live-poetry","category-london","category-performance-poetry","category-poetry-school","category-scratch-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}