The Supreme Deluxe Essential Monster Chetwynd Handbook

The Green Room & Science Lab, The Panther Ejaculates, Uptight Upright, Upside Down, JABBA, I'M BACK! and Cocaine and CaviarMonster Chetwynd gives her performances playful and often off-beat titles. Her colorful, imaginative costumes and props are all handmade, and her friends, her relatives and herself make up the cast. Her performance pieces include elements of folk theatre and street spectacle as well as plenty of scientific, literary and pop cultural allusions. Humorous, informal, improvised and unconventional elements are also writ large in Monster Chetwynds work. This kind of creative work generally defies any attempts to archive or eternize it. My performances are exciting live moments that are difficult to document, concedes Chetwynd. And yet this book seeks to do just that. In looking at a printed survey such as this, however, the readers energy builds in a way that is similar to witnessing one of the live events. And this is indeed a book about building energy, solidarity and interconnectedness. Full to bursting with photographic documentation and source material, this book graphically retraces Monster Chetwynds creative years from 2007 to 2018. The photo series are framed by richly illustrated fanzines, mostly in English, covering each production, including references to sources of inspiration and cast lists.