Maphead Productions Present: Ill-Fitting Suits

Unique, peripatetic improvisational street art from Brighton-based Maphead Transmedia Live Art Band.

Featuring one or two performers, Ill-Fitting Suits is tailor-made for each individual location, thereby creating original one-off packages. Our approach is to perform a collection of actions over a number of hours that build up a rapport with the audience and environment.

The Ill-Fitting Suits philosophy is simple; by twisting seemingly normal activity into wry and witty interactions, we highlight the thin line between the uneventful and the unexpected. By transferring regular situations to different settings, we question the supposed ordinariness of the everyday; magnifying the absurdity inherent in human behaviour.

These performances work with people and place through the very incongruities of their presentations. They are involving without being confrontational; they are conceptual without being aloof. They work at different levels of understanding, but are never mere parody or attention-seeking stunts. There are works which engage and involve, creating a participating dialogue between performer and passer-by. Yet other, briefer performances are often best seen from the corner of the eye, or in a fleeting moment; the periphery of awareness, as though witnessing someone walk into a lamppost from a passing car.

Ill-Fitting Suits has been seen all over London and the South, commissioned by - amongst others - Brighton Festival, Guinness Promotions and the National Street Arts Festival.

It is difficult to describe improvisational works on paper. As an illustration, listed here are ten out of the some forty pieces performed at previous events.

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