Aisle 16: Poetry Boyband (Remastered)  Bath Literary Festival Event – 
The Guildhall -  Sunday March 5th8-30pm

Aisle 16 ‘puts poetry where it belongs: on stage in a white suit, with girls snatching at its ankles’.  The show is ‘edutainment’ for the ‘true connoisseurs of culture - twelve year old girls’; a series of ‘white-knuckle micro-lectures’, in which you will learn‘everything there is to know, about making and liking poetry’.  The lectures cover subjects crucial to aspiring poets, such as: Love, Credibility, Accepting Pretentiousness and How to become a
Tortured Soul.  

Performance poetry can't quite describe this funny, energetic and fast-paced show.   It is the ultimate power point presentation: a glorious hotchpotch of photo slides, animations, and visual puns accompanying poetry - performed fast and faultlessly - in the tradition of dramatic monologue and song lyrics.

Carl Jung vs Sigmund Freud, is a boxing match between the two great psychoanalysts delivered in hip-hop rhyme.  This is followed, even more surreally, by a Pythonesque expedition across playwright Henry Miller’s face. 
 
The poets wear white suits (and they now have a fan club in Bath) but its not Westlife as we know it - and there isn’t a twelve year old girl in sight

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