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Emma Attwood
Actor | Writer | Director
The lady and the unicorn | 2020
'The Lady and the Unicorn' is a live online performance created for the Redwood City Play Festival in July 2020. Inspired by the medieval tapestries of the same name, the performance explores the ways in which desire and memory work through the fabric of our lives, interweaving art history with a queer autobiography of the Lady in the tapestries. This iteration features two competitive yet romantically entangled academics who try to present their own versions of the tapestries’ history. The audience is invited to bring their own props (objects from around their home) for some participatory moments that happen during the performance. It takes inspiration from Marguerite Duras' 1978 film Les mains négatives, Rilke's writings, and of course the tapestries themselves.
Supported by a Theatre Bay Area grant.
'The Lady and the Unicorn' is an ongoing project which began in 2017 at The Yard Theatre in London, UK.