The House of Strange Loops

The House of Strange Loops

THE HOUSE OF STRANGE LOOPS is Dickie Beau’s drag family. Its mission is to provide a nurturing hub for queer artists, in the belief that greater wellbeing will lead to greater work. The vision is to become a touring performance collective and queer-feminist arts festival in one package.

The collective emerged from a workshop Dickie conducted at the National Theatre Studio as part of the Live Art Development Agency’s DIY scheme, and also the result of Dickie’s experiments in the formation of a Company.

The aim of the DIY workshop was to construct a drag family identity for a group of artists, and individual alter-egos within the family dynamic for each participant.

The experience was an experiment in collaboration and the creation of ensemble performance.

THE HOUSE OF STRANGE LOOPS has gradually been evolving since its formation and has begun making performance work as an interdependent Collective.

The collective are in the process of refining their vision with the aim of taking their work on the road in due course. Watch this space…

As a self-contained micro-festival and performance troupe, the proposed menu of activity will include:

Solo and group performances

Workshops

Cabaret

Talks and discussions

Sound and video installations

Core members:

Polly Amory, Dickie Beau, Robert Beck, Rosana Cade, Angela Clerkin, Lesley Ewen, Catherine Hoffmann, Eilidh MacAskill, Alethea Raban