New Art Club: Feel About Your Body, Assembly George Square, 31 July to 25 August (except 13 and 20), £14/12 (£13/11 concessions)
The boys are back in town! New Art Club (aka Tom Roden and Pete Shenton) return to Edinburgh after a two-year gap and this time they’re serious. Well, not exactly serious but they will be tackling a serious subject with their satisfying mix of puerile, emotional and intellectual chatter … along with some moving about.
Feel About Your Body strips down to the basics, laying bare how we all feel about the one thing that’s with us all the way from the cradle to the grave. Worshipped, revered, adorned, abused, laughed at, pampered, pierced, poked and occasionally rubbed lovingly with oil, the human body is truly an object of wonder. Of course, the show’s title has a double meaning – it’s sexy AND intellectual and very very silly.
During the course of this pulsating, visceral and flesh-filled hour, a man will talk to his bottom, bits will bounce and bellies will be bared. There will also be some invaluable advice on what not to do during a heart attack – Pete should know, he had one in his early thirties when his partner was eight months pregnant. All this comes with a warning – in tests eight out of ten audience members were left feeling “a little bit dirty”. There will be some brief nudity (long enough to see ‘the works’), some brief dancing (silly and emotional) and some puerile songs (there’s a good one about a shed).
