7 DAY DRUNK
Created in June 2011, Toured until June 2012
Bryony Kimmings is not an alcoholic, but she has always had a rocky relationship with booze. It seems the dark stuff is intrinsically linked to her confidence as an artist as well as to blame for her most genius and most hideous creations.
From Jackson Pollock to Amy Winehouse, from Oscar Wilde to Charlie Sheen, everyone’s on
something... but why? From the Total Theatre Award-winning creator of Sex Idiot comes a hilarious and
moving one-woman show investigating the historical links between artists and mind enhancing drugs.
Two
parts song and dance routine, one part breakdown with a twist of sobering reality for good measure, the show
follows Bryony as she cracks open her own creative psyche with the help of a film-maker, a team of scientists,
carers and an IT expert. Created solely from material made during a seven-day experiment, in which Bryony was
kept in various states of scientific drunkenness. Performed sober.
The 7 Day Drunk Documentary DVD
is available from the shop.
PRESS
“A riotous ride”
Evening Standard
★★★★
“Delivered with self-aware wit and
a whole lot of glitter. Get it down you!”
Time Out, Critic's Choice
★★★★
“One part sobering
social critique, three parts DIY glitterf*ck... A funny, sad, daft and entirely convincing experience.”
Exeunt
★★★★
“A glitter-spewed dazzler of a performance... utterly magnetic Kimmings”
Remote Goat
★★★★
ARTICLES
BLOG
This extensive blog catalogues the entire experiment from start to finish!
Co-commissioned by
Soho Theatre and The Junction, Cambridge
Supported by
Arts Council England and Escalator East to Edinburgh
'7 Day Drunk
Experiment' supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Subsidised rehearsal space provided
by Jerwood Space.
Toured
2013
Motel Mozaique, Holland
2012
Harpenden Public Halls • Phoenix, Exeter • Showroom, Colchester • Contact, Manchester • Warwick Arts Centre • Soho Theatre • Lincoln Performing Arts Centre • The Lantern Theatre, Sheffield • The Arches, Glasgow • Colchester Arts Centre • Wales Millennium Centre • Mayfest, Bristol Old Vic
2011
Pulse Festival, New Wolsey Studio, Ipswich* • Jacksons Lane* • Latitude Festival • Norwich
Arts Centre* • Assembly Venues, Edinburgh • The Junction, Cambridge • ICIA, Bath • Plymouth Barbican •
Basement, Brighton • Project Arts Centre, Dublin
*Work-in-progress/preview showing
Credits
Written and performed by Bryony Kimmings • Produced by Hannah Kerr • Costumes and Set by David Curtis Ring • Make-up Design by Cathy Ennis • Film by Nick Vass • Lighting Design by Azusa Ono • Experiment Nurses: Natalie Clarke and Rachel Porter • Science Team: Dr Frances Finnigan, Dr Scott Vrecko, Dr Tony Birch, Dr Sophie Scott, Professor Nick Davies • Show Image by Christa Holka and Alexander Innes • Production Photos by Liquid Photo
