27, An ecstatic ritual of life and death

Presented as part of the Ignite Programme: 27, An Ecstatic Ritual of Life and Death.

Peter McMaster, and co-performer Nick Anderson, reflect on their experience of approaching and moving through the infamous age of 27. Through the process of unashamedly unpacking their autobiographies they establish a strikingly visceral poetic that explores this milestone and juncture between youth and maturity, movement and change.

Trying to understand how life is never fixed, these two performers push their bodies towards exhaustive extremes, inhabiting moments of pain, grief and elation, transforming the threat of untimely death into an explosive celebration of being.

‘Honest, inventive and beautifully choreographed’ The Guardian

Peter McMaster is an IBT Wild Card Award Winner.

27 was first presented at IBT15 and was presented at The Place, London, as part of Forest Fringe microfestival. It is currently being produced by IBT and was developed with support from The Arches, Glasgow.

“A look at the insidious nature of male violence, an anarchic, nihilistic energy throughout, and moments of real  tenderness.”
–Lorna Irvine, Exeunt

Peter McMaster is an experimental performance practitioner based in Glasgow, Scotland. He creates work for live art and performance contexts, and only works in traditional contexts if setting out to challenge tradition itself. ‘“Each time their bodies slam into one another, it’s all I can do not to gasp with the bruising beauty of it’’

Historically, his work has been personally and politically engaged in trying to understand his responsibility as an artist living in a time of ecological and social crisis.

–Catherine Love, Exeunt
“As the ash settles we are left with the feeling that we have witnessed something unique’ ”

Age: 14 + (show contains nudity)