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shows: my arm

“I was watching a lot of tv, eating a lot of processed food. It was the 1970s. Heaven.”

"At the age of 10, for want of anything more meaningful to do, I put my arm above my head and kept it there. Now, thirty years on, I'm so full of meaning it's killing me."

my arm is the story of an empty gesture. It’s the confession of a man who has lived for thirty years by the courage of his lack of conviction. In that process he’s become a celebrated medical specimen and an icon of the New York art scene.

His story is told through a combination of live performance, digital film and the animation of everyday objects supplied by the audience before each performance. Above all, my arm is an extraordinary piece of theatre about modern art, bloody-mindedness and how the things we do when we’re ten stick with us for life. It’s beautifully written: simple, honest, intimate and painfully funny.

my arm opened to universal acclaim at the Traverse Theatre during the Edinburgh Festival 2003. Since then it has toured the world.

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my arm is available for booking from January 2008. Please contact Lisa Wolfe for more information