THE BROGAN DAVISON SHOW EXTRAVAGANZA! (2019)
“I hope she gets the help she needs”
The Brogan Davison Show is a stand-up performance that critically explores the act of staging a ‘self’ within the complicated world of identity politics and representation. Dancing on a fine line of lowbrow entertainment and highbrow contemporary performance art, The Brogan Davison Show rarely manages to please everyone in the room, despite its very best effort.
In the show, Brogan Davison, a socially awkward, self-deprecating and mentally unstable English woman, attempts to give the performance of a lifetime. She shares stories from her working class upbringing in England, re-lives being a backing singer in her Dad’s Rock and roll cover band and has a philosophical conversation with a mic-stand.
At its core this vulnerable and hilarious show celebrates failure and the beauty and liberation that can be found within it. As smart as it is naive, The Brogan Davison Show is many things, but mostly a declaration of love for anyone who is looking to find a meaningful place in the world.
“There is something startlingly ugly about the performance, which stands in contrast to how fancy and showy the character on stage seems to want to be.”
“One moment I have the feeling of looking at the craziest stand-up comedy show I have ever seen, the next moment I see a feminist manifesto in it and then a deeply personal monologue.”
“The Brogan Davison Show is an intelligent notion of expectations, roles and truth disguised as liberating nonsense.”
“It’s an intimate-revy-comedy-feminist-therapy-show”
“…it offers a condition of solidarity through the embrace of weakness, failure and vulnerability. And within that solidarity that their work offers, we find qualities of tenderness, empathy, laughter, comfort, and even love, for ourselves and each other.”
Concept and creation: Brogan Davison
Dramaturg: Pétur Ármannsson
Artistic support: Ingrid Vranken and Samara Hersch
Co-production: Indiciplinarte (IT), Das Theatre School (NL), Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam (NL), BIT Teatregarasjen (NO), Rosendal Theatre (NO)
The Brogan Davison Show (2019) has been to:
Welcome To Our Guesthouse, Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Das Theatre Graduate School, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Meteor Festival, Bergen, Norway
Reykjavík Dance Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
Tjarnarbíó, Reykjavík, Iceland