Artists

All dossiers from our agents’ investigations into the artists performing at HATCH: Undercover have now been filed.

Excerpts of their findings are presented below. Click through images for further briefing.
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The Face That Boils Itself

Woodland folk musicians take to the saw and the double bass as the flood waters rise in the caves.
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Zoo Indigo

Two ladies step from wining and dining to wiping and winding, from glad rags to nappy bags, in a humorous look at motherhood, as they go Under the Covers to spy on their real life babies via nursery room CCTV.
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Elizabeth Harris

On 26 August 2008 Pearl Smith was working as a receptionist for Elizabeth Harris, whilst conducting vital research on a secret organisation. She has not been seen since. Do you know anything? And who is ‘Justin’?
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Alice Cade in association with PHONEbox Theatre

Film-noir puppet thriller. Told in serial episodes throughout the night, an ambiguous story of intrigue and conflict reaches a shocking cliff-hanger.
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The New Jerusalem

Stripped down F.O.N.O. and phono. Radios, alarm clocks and prepared tapes create a quiet ominous choir of the best new found sounds in surround sound, live fixing and remixing. With strategic guest star guitar Penelope.
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Kathryn Cooper

The Bank of Tribulation offers financial planning for the end of time.
Become part of the fastest growing apocalypse bank in the World!
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Sean Myatt

An Alka-Seltzer comes out of his wrapping wanting to play with a bag of brightly coloured sweets…  First conceived by Julio Molnar, Petits Suicide is a mythic piece of Object Theatre.
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Daniel Hunt

The words are written down to record the information that needs to be recorded the papers are presented so that everyone can see we are professional and efficient we are important the words are spoken so that you may understand we shall all go home safe reassured and happy and proud.
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Simon Raven

The Entertainer is a wind up performance; a party piece; a silver patter cranked out in a silent, comedy way…
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Maison Foo

The Secret Literature Society’s fearless suffragette The Grand Dame Alice and her bumbling assistant Violet invite you to join them for an amusing and unique evening of top secret entertainment.
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The General Public Chemistry Set

Performing a neurotic low-key musical finale, meandering its way through hypnotic instrumentals and paranoid classics cloaked in a guise of absurdity.  Anti-climax at its best.  Don’t expect an encore.
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Rachel Eite

TV sets hooked up to microphones capture and display the hidden sounds of underground Nottingham. They listen to conversations, play back whispers; nothing is secret or unseen.
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Liam Herne

The Wrapped Up series features the artist wrapped in cling-film to objects and structures within his surrounding environment. At HATCH: Undercover Herne will be transforming himself into a living surveillance camera watching the audience watching him.

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