Rebecca Askew
Fag Break

Fag Break is a game
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Fag Break is a piece of music
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Fag Break is a piece of theatre
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Fag Break is a site specific event
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Two musicians and two audience members follow sets of instructions and play a game that results in the performance of a unique improvised composition inspired by the history of their surroundings.
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Fag Break was the result of a commission to devise an intimate piece to perform during Plovdiv 2019 (European City of Culture). The first performances were in a former tobacco factory and featured lighters, cigarette packets, ominous percussion, classical cello and echoes of Otis Redding’s 'Cigarettes and Coffee'.
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Second performances took place at the Profound Sound Festival (2020) in Folkestone Quarterhouse, which was built on the site of a building firm, a cake shop and a beer shop.
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Fag Break provides permission and a space for adult non-musicians and musicians to play together and be creative within given constraints, which sometimes results in some delightfully surprising responses!
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Percussion - Haydn Ackerley (Plovdiv)
Cello - Laura Ritchie (Plovdiv)
Voice, Bottle, Hammer - Anna Braithwaite (Folkestone)
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More information here
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Footage shot by mistereb.com
That was such fun! - Participant
Watch one whole round of Fag Break as played in Folkestone here