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Emily Wardill: Game Keepers Without Game at The Showroom including a discussion with Emily

  • Tuesday 23 March
  • 6:30-8:30pm

  • The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ

  • Tube
  • Edgware Road (Circle, Bakerloo, Hammersmith & City)

  • Bus
  • 6, 16, 98, 332, 414

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Brave and uncompromising, Emily Wardill is one of those rare artists who have the ability to cut straight to the heart of human existence. Her work can make you feel uncomfortable about the world in which we live. But it is the real world.

Game Keepers Without Game is based on Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s seventeenth-century play Life is a Dream (La Vida es Suena). Set in contemporary London, Emily’s interpretation focuses on a girl put up for adoption by her family at a young age and confronts issues of belonging, dislocation, anger and love. This is edge of your seat stuff and it will hit you where it hurts.

Emily is one of the UK’s most exciting film-makers. Living and working in London, she is a senior lecturer at Central Saint Martins College of Art and is part of the Boxing Club, an artist collective based at Limehouse Town Hall. In 2008, she was nominated for The Jarman Award. Emily occasionally likes to hang out with polar bears in the arctic.

This event is Members Only (30 places).

http://www.theshowroom.org/