News: Gone To The Dogs Announced for Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023
The fourth programme entry to join the Thistle And Rose Arts’ ranks at the Edinburgh Fringe this year is the mesmirising, multi-instrumental, kaleidoscopic Gone To The Dogs, written and performed by artist Tsarzi.
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A faded Britannia sits alone in her bedsit, remembering.
The radio is glitching and the glory days are long gone. Step into an absurdist world of nostalgia and memorialisation, as she sings a story of lost identity and forgotten golden ages. Through looped madrigals, cabaret cantatas and violin odes, she weaves together fragments of past and present, from Arthurian myth to Brexit malaise, where the tyranny of memory and the fear of irrelevance become all-consuming.
Tsarzi plays Brittannia, a metaphorical relic of a lost British identity, unmoored and floundering in a sea of memories and the fever dream of imperial glory.
This mesmeric mix of theatre and song cycle explores imperial nostalgia, war memorialisation and the impossible longing for a lost golden age. Written during and inspired by the isolation of lockdown, this new production from TSarzi is a study of England as it is now: hooked on the past and wary of the future. A genre-defying piece both astute and absurd, Gone to the Dogs is a show about nostalgia and lost identity, a story of self, nation and of the tyranny of memory.
The show comes hot off the back of an electric VAULT festival run, highlighted by Lyn Gardner and Broadway Baby in their picks of the festival.
Everything Theatre called the piece “unquestionably stunning”.
Gone To The Dogs will play at Gilded Balloon from the 2nd to 27th of August at 3:55pm in the Wine Bar. For more information about the production, visit the show page here: thistleandrosearts.co.uk/gone-to-the-dogs