“True Love” - The Truth

2011/2012

Isley Lynn - Writer and Performer


We were going to become famous, get married, have babies and be together forever. Then we broke up. So what the hell happened?


Brimming over with brilliantly written bad language, Isley Lynn treads a high wire between hilarity and heartbreak in her newest casual, confessional show.


"Her stuff is fantastic, never before have I encountered a creative force whose work I find moving, arousing, humorous, technically brilliant and achingly honest."
– THE EX IN QUESTION

UK tour dates 2011

Exeter Fringe Festival: June - Friday 24th 9pm, Saturday 25th 7.30pm and Sunday 26th 6pm - The Rusty Bike, Exeter

Hemstock Festival: Saturday 17th September, Dorset

Branching Out Festival: Friday 2nd December 7.30pm, Rosemary Branch Theatre London

In The Flesh Festival: Saturday 3rd December 8.30pm, Barbican Theatre Plymouth


UK tour dates 2012

Forked!: Thursday 19th January, Plymouth

Theatre In The Pound: Monday 6th February, London

The Bike Shed Theatre: Tuesday 13th March, Exeter

Publications


You Would Be An Attractive Hawk

Rob Sherman

This poetry zine is a collaboration by Exeter-based poet and musician Rob Sherman, and the South-West artist Jack Teagle. With themes from God to snail sex, there's something for everyone.  On sale through No Guts No Glory in Exeter.



Year Old Ghosts

Isley Lynn

Written over the period of one year, this collection of over 20 poems dissects the development of a single relationship, which is at times uplifting, cheeky, saddening and charming.  No punches pulled.





Dove Songs - An Anthology, Chronologically

Isley Lynn

Poems, snippets, dialogues and confessions of a young girl in love with a grown man.  Pivoting around a traditionally taboo subject, this is a tellingly raw piece of work from a writer with the need to purge demons long gone.



Teeny Tiney Zeeny Zinee

Isley Lynn

A petite collection of pipsqueak poems that can fit in your pocket.  Cheaply made but worth the world, this is a sweet little insight into the wandering mind of a poet with rhyme, if not always reason.


To purchase any of the above contact Isley Lynn through the Quilt - Contact Us page


 

PAST PROJECTS

CURRENT PROJECTS

Lifting Spirits

@ Nabokov’s Festival of the Dead

2011

Isley Lynn - Writer and Performer


A short live poetry set for the dead (and the living)

Performed Friday 28th and Saturday 29th October 2011, BAC London
Port Eliot Festival

2009

Isley Lynn - Performer


Isley Lynn gave two rigorous performances as part of this year’s Port Eliot Festival.  Alongside bunches of other talented people, including many artists lined up to participate in Songs With A View it wasn’t too lonely a stage, and she certainly wasn’t be the only one giving stirring performances during the festival known for its quirky, handcrafted and laid-back vibes.


For more information on the festival visit:


www.porteliotfestival.com


Temple Of
Nothing’s ‘Women Are Revolting’

2009

Isley Lynn - Contributing Writer, Deviser, Performer


“The Temple of Nothing is a company of women artists that explores the impossible and paradoxical through performance art; live, recorded, 2D, 3D, 4D, 5D, 6D, just text, just noise, visual media, silence and nothing.”  With their new performance ‘Women Are Revolting’ bursting with conceptual spectacle, this was more than just a piece of theatre, but a celebration of female artists across a wide range of disciplines, all examining and marking what it means to be female.


Performed July 11th at The Phoenix, Exeter


For more information, visit: www.templeofnothing.com

A New Pair

2009

Isley Lynn – Writer, Director


In her first play for radio, Isley examines, in under 15 minutes, the identity and history of a young woman, as told by her shoes.  Characterful and imaginative, this touching and hilarious piece is sure to delight and surprise.


Broadcast on Expression FM on Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th June, Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd July on Expression Radio.


 


Resident Writer Isley Lynn

Isley Lynn primarily writes for performance, but is happy writing for any genre, any style, any form (see more of her work for the stage on our Theatre page).  She has performed many solo shows in the UK and US over the last six years which have been critically acclaimed and enthusiastically received.  She has been awarded the DJ Colthup Prize for ‘Most Promising Artist’ (2001) as well as performing as finalist in various poetry slams across the UK.  Her work is aggressively immersive, a confessional blend of performance poetry and stand up comedy that is   witty, light-hearted, beautiful, vulgar,

sad and achingly honest.  She joins the Royal Court Young Writers Programme in May this year, and is a Creative Associate with the Soho Theatre’s Young Company.