Is musica! Pel�culas! Funcionamiento!
�SiLENCiO!
THURSDAY 29 APRIL
7.30pm � 1am , �3(2)
The Counting House, West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh
You are invited to SiLENCiO!
The lights fall and the enigmatic emcee smiles as silence descends as a shadow across bodies draped around this cavernous space. A beat punches softly through ribcage and flesh vibrates and resonates, creating instruments out of the moving bodies. Their whispers and sighs ensconcing themselves within the musical score, composing of here and now�
As usual, the talented artists on Thursday's secret line up will provide the excellent entertainment that SiLENCiO partygoers have come to enjoy...
Glamour, tatter, enigma, performance, art, absinth, fine company and entertainment, housed in the decadent surroundings of Cabaret SiLENCiO� �Edinburgh�s most opulent after hours affair� (the Herald)
COME AND PLAY!
COME AND PERFORM!
For those of you lucky enough to get tickets to our last party night in the penthouse suite of the Brunswick hotel in Glasgow�s merchant city, you�ll remember the amazement, the fun, the sauna� For everyone else, this is what you missed�
The Herald FEATURES
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Hotel Silencio Chateau Delux Brunswick Hotel Glasgow By NEIL COOPER April 12 2004
Imagine Saturday night in the penthouse suite of a city centre hotel. Debauched behaviour at private parties, glamour-filled illicit trysts, and all the exclusive accoutrements of jet-set legend. Now dream the scene of a one-night stand with Edinburgh cabaret emporium Silencio shacking-up with premiere Glasgow art-eventists The Chateau, and you're on the list for Hotel Silencio Chateau Delux, a non-stop erotic cabaret of poets, performers and creative commotion across the complex's uber-minimalist two floors. There's private readings in the sauna, while a girl plays the flute as she takes a bath. A pair of dominatrix doctors conduct the sternest of sex surveys, and a dragged-up geisha girl called Penny Pornstar reads surrealist erotica involving Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Morningside ladies play air guitar, and, less unexpected, there's much activity in the
bedroom. Highway Diner Theatre Company's Laura Cameron Lewis begins proceedings, slinking in like a pulp fiction starlet, before changing into one of many undercover aliases. The theme is picked up later on by Michelle McVeigh's routine with a hat and an apple, while the full ensemble change partners as well as clothes as they tumble in and out of bed in a series of explorations of intimacy in a touch and go environment. Poets Rodney Relax and Jem Rolls offer two very different brands of showmanship; Relax an understated idealist next to Rolls' more waggishly in-yer-face assaults on Entente Cordiale. By the time the militarily attired X Vectors are slashing out their angular, NY-styled guitar funk in a well-lubricated living room, the private party's gone public, the dancefloor's an action painting come to life, and you're in the swinging finale of a sixties Brit-flick. For one night only, the dream came true. Let's do it again sometime soon. Copyright � 2004 Newsquest (Herald &
Times) Limited. All Rights Reserved
Come do it again with us�
Laura Cameron Lewis and Jennifer Williams
l: 07976 316 073
j: 07969 163 065
0131 225 5639
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
�IF variety really is the spice of life, few club nights can be spicier than
Silencio.� Andrew Midgley, Edinburgh Evening News
�Based at the Counting House on West Nicolson Street since early last year, it
has resolutely stuck to its founding aim of capturing the anything-goes,
slightly surreal atmosphere of a 1930s European cabaret venue.
Silencio serves up an array of entertainment in a format geared for the
generation weaned on modern club culture. From throat-singers to clowns, poetry
to comedy and performance theatre to new music, it�s a strange-sounding blend
but it works.
Attendances at their monthly events have been very healthy and you�d be
hard-pushed to find a more challenging, experimental yet entertaining night out
in Edinburgh.� Andrew Midgley, Edinburgh Evening News
�Silencio�s young hosts pride themselves on their style and resolutely refuse to insult their audience�s intelligence. And, taking over the vaulted and luxurious Counting House on the last Thursday of every month, they invite artists from all disciplines to contribute a piece, whether work-in-progress or finished product, audio, video, theatre, spoken word or performance art. There really are no boundaries to what these lavish ladies will stage but that�s not to say it will all go duly applauded.
�Current culture is so prescribed and over-produced that the assumption is, as a consumer, you must like it because the quality is so high and the packaging so shiny,� complains Cameron Lewis. �So, it�s important that there�s space for things to fail, not in a negative sense but as part of a bigger creative act. If you aim to make something as accessible as possible, there�s a danger of dumbing down. It�s important for a space to exist for things to go
on no matter what and it�s just as important for audiences to assert their right not to like something.�
Andrew Richardson (Metro)
Laura Cameron Lewis and Jennifer Williams
l: 07976 316 073
j: 07969 163 065
0131 225 5639
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Glasgow and Edinburgh Performers
Wanted! For the
Next SiLENCiO
EAST MEETS WEST
As part of the Edinburgh Rush
Sat 29 May
7.30pm-1am
The Counting House
Edinburgh
SilENCiO press links :
http://www.news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=1309102003
http://www.news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=249362003
http://www.news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=248082003
http://www.news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=242002003
http://www.news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=1358692003
SiLENCiO photos :
http://www.rebeccamedia.co.uk/project.aspx?pid=14&i=1
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