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1 y separately published work icon Hold Your Breath (Count to Ten) Daley King , 2018 13965724 2018 single work drama

'It’s a simple instruction. It can help you clear your mind. Especially if you have issues.

'Daley has issues. His social skills are clinically lacking, so he puts up a facade. His lungs are a diagnosed let-down, so he spends his life in water. His mind constantly escapes him, so he endeavours to escape his mind. To deal with these disorders, Daley has learned how to breathe. He’s also found art to keep him afloat.

'In this extremely personal and revealing work, Daley attacks the idea behind the ‘broken artist’, and what we might do to fix ourselves, or just to keep our heads above the water. With the darkest of humour, and brutal honesty, he twists and turns the idea of ‘performance’, a unique perspective on what it means to bare yourself, your ideas, and your traumas to an audience.

'Working closely with local performer Amy Murray, and local director Susie Conte, Hold Your Breath (Count To Ten) delves deep into the mind and methods of local weirdo Daley King, as he sets out on a mission to bring to life his experience of making art while dealing with his own physical, emotional, and mental debilitation.'

source: Publisher's blurb.

1 1 Tank Daley King , 2016 single work drama

'What would you sacrifice to survive?

'Three fish swim peacefully in an aquarium. The coral is bright but life is dull. When a fourth fish is introduced into the tank, their status quo is confronted and life begins to take a turn for the worse.

'The temperature rises, food is scarce, and a fight for survival begins. Primitive instincts are brought to the fore as the world they know collapses around them.

'TANK is a cautionary tale; a brutal reflection of our absurdly volatile relationship with the environment and each other. Adapt or die, it’s a fish-eat-fish world out there and one of them has to go.' (Production summary)

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