Performance Live Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Kate Tempest

Sat, Oct 1, 2016 60 mins

Award-winning artist Kate Tempest hosts a night of poetry that includes her epic new story Let Them Eat Chaos and performances from three of her friends, recorded live at the Rivoli Ballroom in south London. Fusing hip-hop, poetry and theatre, Let Them Eat Chaos is set in the early hours of one morning and traces the lives of seven people living on a south London street, who all find themselves awake at 4:18am. Kate will be joined by performance poets Deanna Rodger, David J Pugilist and Isaiah H

Episode 2

Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere

Sat, Jul 22, 2017 60 mins

A play about how we got from the optimism of the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement to the election of Donald Trump.

Episode 3

Flood: To the Sea

Sat, Aug 12, 2017 60 mins

Set in the aftermath of an apocalyptic event, which has seen England engulfed by water, this play asks a simple question: what if the fleeing masses from our TV screens and Twitter feeds, in their boats and their orange lifejackets, had English accents? A reimagining of the flood myth, it is the story of how the nation is destroyed by a global flood and tsunami wave.

Episode 4

Get a Round

Sat, Aug 26, 2017 60 mins

Could the rules of a massive night out save the world? Join Eggs Collective at a Manchester boozer for a theatrical comedy hot-wired for TV and brimming with northern soul.

Episode 5

Missing Episode

Sat, Oct 7, 2017 60 mins

Experimental poet Ross Sutherland remixes a 20-year-old episode of EastEnders. On October 7 1997, Ross was watching EastEnders with his parents when there was a knock at the door. He never saw the end of that episode. Now, 20 years later, Ross returns to his family home to revisit the events of that night, with a little help from EastEnders.

Episode 6

Touretteshero: Me, My Mouth and I

Sat, Jul 21, 2018 60 mins

A 60-minute film exploring neuro-diversity in the arts through the work of Samuel Beckett from disabled performer Jess Thom's personal perspective. Jess is an artist and activist who also has Tourette's Syndrome. In this film, Jess takes us on a journey of discovery into one of Beckett's most complex plays,and asks us to radically reconsider issues of disability, representation and social exclusion.

Episode 7

Taxi Tales

Fri, Aug 10, 2018 60 mins

A surprising journey through Middlesbrough, in and out of the cabs of three very different drivers - a young British-Pakistani entrepreneur who believes that immigrants have always been enterprising by nature, a local man who used to work in construction on towering glass buildings down south and an older seasoned driver who is in love with his job - until the day he falls out of it.

Episode 8

Hofesh Shechter's Clowns

Sat, Sep 22, 2018 60 mins

A dance film that is a macabre comedy of murder and desire, asking how far will we go in the name of entertainment. Exhilarating choreography combined with a percussive score.

Episode 9

Love

Sat, Dec 8, 2018 60 mins

In the communal area of a block of temporary accommodation, the residents go about their day-to-day routines in the run-up to Christmas. The bonds of love that keep people together are put to the test.

Episode 10

The Way Out

Sun, May 17, 2020 60 mins