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Big Throw #3
at SET Social, Peckham, London
23 April 2026
An evening of live performances, featuring spoken word, music, video, object theatre, animation, opera, puppetry, tap dance and things without name.
Big Throw is a collective of performance makers. Complicatedness underpins their attitude and productions. They acknowledge that any representation will be a simplification compared to the world at large and the fomentations of the mind, but, being wary of simplification and elegance, they aim to work as complicatedly as they can.
For this evening at SET, expect:
mysterious tapping and a plot hole that breaks meaning;
workers trapped in Yellow Grid, forced to produce The Sweet Spot;
church windows, the three blind mice and Descartes trying to locate a needle using a stick;
an over-populated developers' model with pool tables all the way down.
Recent Things
Money Laundering Service
performance, 2025
A performance/installation that professed to 'eradicate even deep-down, stubborn, criminal dirt' that punters' money accrues during circulation.
The five-minute-long performance ran on a loop throughout the evening, between other performances in Big Throw, at the Horse Hospital, July 2025.
Photograph by Anya Broida.
Dog Shelves (Various) I
performance, 2024
A performance involving five cover versions of floors, remade at tabletop scale. This first iteration (of what could be a long-running series) featured floors from:
Terminator II;
a villa on the Aventine Hill in Rome at the time of the Emperor Hadrian ('the unswept floor' mosaic is now in the Vatican Museum);
Galaxy Road, Cowplain, Hampshire,1979;
an imagined theatre during an imagined Jerôme Bel performance;
Antioch in Russell Hoban's Pilgermann.
The eight-minute-long performance ran on a loop throughout the evening, between other performances in Big Throw, at Matt's Gallery, December 2024.
Photograph by Fergus Carmichael.
Margaret Calvert Drives Out
Lyrics & video for Bas Jan
Fire Records, 2024
From Bas Jan's new album Back To The Swamp. Listen/order here.
Help in Cucumbers
A novella
JOAN publishing, 2023
Part collective memoir, part fictionalised survey of art made in the workplace, Help in Cucumbers is set in the London pub I worked in throughout the 1990s.
Order the book (and a tea towel!) from JOAN.
Where They Gather
A spoken word and music album with Kit Downes
October House Records, 2022
Image: Kit & Sally performing, aspirational portrait
Things in Limbo
She Described It to Death
A cancelled opera
Music: Matt Rogers
Libretto: Sally O'Reilly
Director: Anna Morrissey
What would happen if humans lived as long as trees? This chamber opera speculates on how near-immortality might change our understanding of what is truly important. Its complex story reflects our often-disastrous relationship with narrative itself.
Commissioned and not quite produced by Royal Opera and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.