Samra Mayanja brings to THH new developments of her performance practice, with a very intimate, limited capacity two-day run of proto-clowns
Doors 7:30pm
Tickets £8/10/15
‘proto-clowns (almost there)’ is a work-in-progress! An absurdist show about a holy mother who stalks her adult child featuring…just Samra Mayanja. Existing somewhere between clowning, poly-vocal cunty-theatre and the dregs of live art.
The performance explores the notion that 'there is no better place to hide than behind the mask of motherhood'. As always, Samra’s work is about what we do for love and is always giving a delirious dose of laugh-cry-laugh-cry-laugh.
Samra Mayanja is an artist-writer working across performance, pedagogy, curation and writing. She thinks about poetics always. As in; the voice (and the unspeakable), the disembodied speaker and the illegibility of the body. But like, she works like a clown. As in; she often begins a process with the absurdist impulse to seek what is irretrievably lost. A continuously hopeful but seemingly futile act of searching runs through her work and manifests in relational practices edging towards attunement. Attunement towards each other, improvisation and humour; devices that reset our conditions.
Recent projects include Dead Dad Death Cult, Transmediale, Berlin (2025), Battersea Arts Centre, London (2025). My pamphlet My Will and Testament (Never My Last) was recently published with If a Leaf Falls Press (2025).