Monday 16th February, 8pm
FOUND IN TRANSLATION (Joe Dunthorne, Tim Clare & Ross Sutherland) + Tim Key
£7 (£5 concessions)
Tickets on the door and from www.wegottickets.com
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Found in Translation
“A recipe for madness”
- The Londonist

Three young writers attempt to strongarm their way into one of the most exclusive and bizarre writing movements of all time: The OULIPO. A small group of leading French poets and mathematicians, the OULIPO flood their work with rules and restrictions as a way of breaking into their subconscious minds.

Adapting a famous OULIPO constraint, Joe, Tim and Ross took up the challenge of the Univocalism – a poem using only one type of vowel. Discipline soon gave way to obsession, and as the rules began to take hold the boys started to find hidden messages in the strangest of places.

Covering everything from Biblical mistranslation to school bullies and former WWE wrestler Mr Perfect, Found in Translation is a quest of arbitrary limits and new frontiers, written in the tradition of Luke Rhineheart’s The Dice Man and Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure: one part literary lecture, one part multimedia performance, and with a hefty dose of cutting-edge satire.
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Tim Key

“Pitiful, engaging and hilarious”
- Martin Hoyle, Financial Times

Poet, performer and savant Tim Key is a member of comedy sketch group Cowards, soon to be made famous in a BBC 4 series. He is a double-nominee for the Perrier Award, performs with Tom Basden as Freeze and appears on Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe. Tim is a prolific poet and has written a book entitled 25 Poems, 3 Recipes, and 32 Other Suggestions. (An Inventory).