Christopher Brett Bailey
Christopher Brett Bailey is a writer, theatremaker, musician and performer born 3 July 1987 in Fort Erie, Ontario. Born 8 weeks premature, he weighed 2lbs, and has spoken publicly about how his "outlook has been shaped by the knowledge that, in an earlier period, I would have not survived birth".[1] Bailey achieved prominence within the UK during 2014, after his work This Is How We Die received critical acclaim.[2][3][4] Described by The Stage as a 'cult hit',[5] This Is How We Die won the Arches Brick Award, Offies' TBC Award, and was shortlisted for a Total Theatre Award.
Bailey grew up in Fort Erie, Buffalo, New York and Halifax, Nova Scotia, before moving to the United Kingdom in 2003, where he attended the East 15 Acting School.
Theatre
This Is How We Die opened at Norwich Arts Centre in May 2014 before a week's run at Ovalhouse, London, in June 2014, where it was second in a double bill with The Ted Bundy Project by Greg Wohead. The show quickly attracted attention from theatre bloggers[6][7] and was a significant critical success as part of the Forest Fringe programme at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It has since toured throughout the United Kingdom, Portugal, Norway, Canada, United States, Netherlands, and Australia, winning the Arches Brick Award (2014),[8] and the Offies' TBC Award (2015). Bailey regularly performed This Is How We Die with musicians Alice Jane Turner, George Percy, and Apollo, but some performances have also featured special guests, such as Sammy Metcalfe from Sleepwalk Collective.
This Is How We Die was published as a playtext by Oberon Books in 2015[9] and was the subject of an unofficial fanzine called Savage Tongues in July that year.[10]
Kissing The Shotgun Goodnight was commissioned by Ovalhouse, Cambridge Junction, Theatre In The Mill, Theatr Iolo and the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts, opening at Ovalhouse in October 2016. It was performed by Bailey, with Alicia Jane Turner and George Percy. Reviews were favourable.[11]
Bailey has a regular collaboration with Made In China theatre company, appearing in their works We Hope That You're Happy[12] Gym Party[13] and Double Double Act.[14]
In 2015, Bailey performed in Weaklings, a show about readers of Dennis Cooper's blog, by Chris Goode and Company, and as a voice artist in Fiction, an immersive audio performance by Glen Neath and David Rosenberg (previously of Shunt).
Music
Bailey is a founder member of Moon Ate The Dark[15] alongside pianist Ann Rose Carter. Two albums have been released on Sonic Pieces, with the 2012 debut described as "one of the best albums of 2012" by MixGrill.[16]
This Machine Won't Kill Fascists But It Might Get You Laid[17] is the collective name for a series of Bailey's compositions for the electric guitar, often performed with regular collaborators Alicia Jane Turner and George Percy.
Influences
Bailey has cited Dennis Cooper, Kanye West, Glenn Branca, William S. Burroughs and Penn and Teller as influences.[18][19][20] He has attributed his interest in the electric guitar to hearing the feedback at the beginning of Foxy Lady by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.[21]
Further reading
Christopher Brett Bailey website
Profile in Exeunt Magazine, April 2016
References
- ↑ Exeunt Magazine. "Christopher Brett Bailey: 'I don't really live in the real world'", Exeunt Magazine, 12 April 2016.
- ↑ The Guardian. "This Is How We Die - razor wit in a ranting monologue", The Guardian, 20 June 2014.
- ↑ Time Out. "This Is How We Die", Time Out, 4 June 2015.
- ↑ The Stage. "This Is How We Die at Battersea Arts Centre - hypnotic'", The Stage, 4 June 2015.
- ↑ The Stage. "Natasha Tripney's Theatre Picks", The Stage, 2 June 2015.
- ↑ Megan Vaughan. "Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above", 18 June 2014.
- ↑ Catherine Love. "This Is How We DIe, Ovalhouse", 18 June 2014.
- ↑ The Arches. "Arches Brick Award: gutterly brilliant winners announced'", The Arches (Glasgow), 22 Aug 2014.
- ↑ Oberon Books. "This Is How We Die'", Oberon Books".
- ↑ Megan Vaughan and Simon Bowes. "Savage Tongues", July 2015.
- ↑ WhatsonStage. "Review: Kissing The Shotgun Goodnight (Ovalhouse)", Whatsonstage.com, 10 Oct 2016.
- ↑ Made In China. "We Hope That You're Happy'".
- ↑ Made In China. "Gym Party'".
- ↑ Unicorn Theatre. "Double Double Act".
- ↑ Moon Ate The Dark. "Music",
- ↑ MixGrill. "In the magic of 'MOON ATE THE DARK' with one of the best albums of 2012 - Interview", 8 Jan 2013.
- ↑ Christopher Brett Bailey. "This Machine Won't Kill Fascists But It Might Get You Laid"
- ↑ Christopher Brett Bailey. "w e a k l i n g s", September 2015.
- ↑ Interview for Dying Matters Awareness Week. "Ask Me Again At The End", 19 May 2015.
- ↑ Christopher Brett Bailey. "influences".
- ↑ Moon Ate The Dark interview for Fractured Air. "Step Right Up Moon Ate The Dark", August 2015.
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