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Slippery Fish: Packet
Holiday
Performed
Saturday
19 August Penzance Town Centre.
In
Morrab Gardens on the way down to the seafront, Slippery Fish offered a
very different experience. Drawing on a British tradition of end-of-the-pier
seaside entertainments, they offered passers-by ‘packet holidays’.
Willing punters were asked where they wanted their holiday and were taken
by the two female performers, who were dressed as air-hostesses, up into
the bandstand. To the sound of music appropriate to the country, they were
then photographed wearing the national costumes and accoutrements typically
associated with the destination chosen. The resulting Polaroid was generously
given to them as a memento of the experience.
Appealing to people of all ages, particularly younger viewers, this was
a tongue in cheek performance that was close to being street-theatre. It
seemed to gently question and even ridicule the idea of the package holiday,
which has devalued foreign travel by making it so cheap and easy.
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