Lite Metle (2020)
If you want to know how light metal is, then listen carefully… Love is tainted, so be cautious of colourful cuties that aren’t made of butter. They can fly where they shouldn’t and their wings can flap so hard that the heart breaks.
Life gave us lemons, so cut a small hole in your heart and let the sadness leak out. Then squeeze the lemon into your heart until there’s more pain than gain. Mix that clotting blood lemonade and drink it with your lover. Now your tongues will curl like a slug in salt, frothing and sweating until there’s more froth than slug. Your pet will eat you when you’re dead and the owner will be owned. This is your comfort.
Lite Metle is a solo version of the 6 hour epic saga performance Hevi Metle. The performance uses sounds resembling words and movements resembling dance to try manifest other worlds. Metal can become an opera singer, can become Greta Thunberg, can become change, can become a forever winter solstice, can become deep fried milk teeth, can become vantablack, can become romance, can become horror, can go up in flames, can be eaten alive, can become a state of mind.
Created and performed by: Louise Ahl.
Commissioned by The Yard Theatre. Supported through The Work Room’s Residency programme and Tramway.
Photography: Christa Holka
Performances
28th January - 1st February 2020 at The Yard Theatre, London as part of NOW Festival
Press
Video documentation available upon request.