Ed Rapley

Performer, Director, Useful Person To Know

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  • The Face Game

    The Face Game

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    This piece will soon be old enough to vote and I last performed it over 15 years ago. So I was pleasantly surprised to get an email from Harun Morrison asking about it. It got me thinking about the piece, the time it was made in and who I was back then. Here we are…

  • Circus City 2025 Reflections

    Attending the launch of the Circus City programme was a joyous moment, the collection of work that the team had curated felt like a profoundly hopeful expression of care, struggle and connection. So I got myself a festival pass in order to see as much of it as possible. Turns out the festival was even…

  • What’s all this about?

    I thought I would start blogging again. What on earth would motivate someone to do that in 2025? Hope.  What’s there to be hopeful about? I really don’t know but I think there is some interesting dignity to be found within baseless hope. I don’t need things to get better. I just need to keep…

  • Nesting

    I thought today about the black box, about story, about how the past is nested in to the present. Sight first evolved in the oceans, gentle sensory depressions in the surface of vastly distant ancestors. Now through all these generations the sea is still nested within our eyes, those salty tears diluted over time to…

  • I still hope

    It has taken a long time to sit still. I needed to find the right balance of inputs, you know too much of anything sends me into a state of disbalance. So now I have consumed the correct amount. I have maintained my macros, for weeks now, the correct levels of daily nihilism and metamodernism,…

  • In Loving Memory

    At the Invisible Circus show Welcome to The Future I performed alongside Bad Fractal’s Bang Crosby as a kind of priest in a sideshow booth called the Cultural Graveyard. It was a temporary chapel in memory and celebration of dead DIY arts spaces in Bristol. There was a book of remembrance, this is what people…