Earlier this year Katie featured the show Knees Up, produced by Portsmouth based performance organisation Downtown Pompey. A Queer forward variety cabaret show playing on the idea of Saturday night television. A cornerstone in British culture where families gathered around the tv to watch classic programs such as Fun House and X Factor from the early 2000s. The more modern equivalent would be shows like Drag Race or Traitors. To enhance the traits of this family activity, the Knees Up stage was designed with the intention to invite you into their living room to watch the show with them. Particularly with the designated onstage sofa for the ‘mothers’. Between acts, the sofa was a functional centrepiece that cleverly bridges the the performativity of theatre and the mundane of everyday life as represented by the casually dressed mothers. In combination with sidetracks of local ‘Pompey humour’ from the drag hosts, The Fabulous Josh and Cherry Liquor it was a show featuring diverse talent such as Portsmouth Chinese Dancing Group and legendary and villonus performance by Joe Black.
Earlier this year Katie featured the show Knees Up, produced by Portsmouth based performance organisation Downtown Pompey. A Queer forward variety cabaret show playing on the idea of Saturday night television. A cornerstone in British culture where families gathered around the tv to watch classic programs such as Fun House and X Factor from the early 2000s. The more modern equivalent would be shows like Drag Race or Traitors. To enhance the traits of this family activity, the Knees Up stage was designed with the intention to invite you into their living room to watch the show with them. Particularly with the designated onstage sofa for the ‘mothers’. Between acts, the sofa was a functional centrepiece that cleverly bridges the the performativity of theatre and the mundane of everyday life as represented by the casually dressed mothers. In combination with sidetracks of local ‘Pompey humour’ from the drag hosts, The Fabulous Josh and Cherry Liquor it was a show featuring diverse talent such as Portsmouth Chinese Dancing Group and legendary and villonus performance by Joe Black.