“It is not going to be easy in so short a time to tell you the fundamental reasons why I am a painter”  — Roland Penrose

Roland returns home, braced for change.
Friend and biographer to Picasso, husband to Lee Miller; collector and surrealist artist; teacher of camouflage to the Home Guard - Roland Penrose was a man at the heart of his time: its art, its personalities, its conflicts.

From the battlefields of Spain to the Minotaurs of desire, the tranquility of the Côte d'Azur to a bohemian London on the eve of another World War, [Roland : A Collage] is a theatrical collage of the many lives and loves of a group of artists at a tipping point in European history. Interweaving music, movement and text, the MolinoGroup will create a fresh collage every night.

Following their UK tour of DESERT, the MolinoGroup return to the Bike Shed after first developing Roland during their 2013 Residency here. Charting an era defined as much by destruction as inspiration, the company's latest piece explores the place of art in a world beset by crisis.

Tickets: £12/ £8

Performances:

12, 13, 14 and 16 November at 7.30pm and 19, 21 and 22 November at 7.30pm 

http://www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/roland-a-collage/