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Knickers & Vests

This strangely-titled piece concerns Triangle Theatre Company's latest project is descibed as 'an “oral history of the PE kit” and archive memories of the compulsory PE experience particularly of fitness regimes in school since 1948' 

For Knickers & Vests the company assembled a team of actors in-role as “sports instructors” to document memories during or immediately after exercise. Knickers & Vests begins with the premise that sports phobia is linked to a dread of embarrassment and aims to re-member and re-enact sports histories via the tactics of both reluctant and zealous sports participants, of skivers and misfits, and to investigate “discipline” and the body as they are understood in both sport and theatre.

Thus, a motley crew of sports 'instructors' led the parade for the opening ceremony of the British Transplant Games held in various venues around Coventry.

The assembled crowd were initially unsure as to whether the team were for real or not, but doubts were quickly dispelled once the routine got underway, climaxing with the sudden activation of the fountains outside the Herbert Museum. 

More appearances of these top athletes are planned building, hopefully, to an appearance at the opening of the Olympics in 2012!

For more information on the "Knickers & Vests" and other Triangle projects, please visit their website

Two Castles Run 2009

The annual 10K dash between Warwick and Kenilworth Castles was held on Sunday 7th June in pouring rain, wind and unseasonally low temperatures. Standing in these conditions for 3 hours was nothing though compared with what the 3,000 or so hardy runners endured as they raced between the two historic monuments.

Unbelievably, having left Warwick at 9am, the first runner passed me at Castle Farm, with less that 2Km left to run, at 9.28am! I doubt if I could have driven the distance much quicker!

After the first runner, the rest came in thick and fast with, as far as I know, all runners finishing (at some point!)

Well done to all who entered.