Emily Harrison
After spending the last three years receiving intensive training from the Academy of Music and Theatre Arts, Falmouth, within my Theatre and Performance degree -
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I'm just about ready to enter the big bad world and make some noise.
Headshot by Thom Axon
Loud mouth Geordie tired of the patriarchy.
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Theatre maker, performer and writer
Coast lover, sea swimmer
Currently based in Cornwall
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insta: @emilyannharrison
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Past Noise...
This is My Riot
2019​
Inspired by the incredible Russian activist group Pussy Riot, this solo performance is a protest against the lowering standards of consent amongst young adults.
Poor sex education and easy access to pornography from a young age has given our youth a skewed and unpleasant view of sexual norms. This has led to a dramatic rise in sexually aggressive
acts - which should always require consent - becoming common place.
This is my Riot hopes to expose these issues for what they are, whilst inspiring others to start their own protests along the way.
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Warning! Includes badly drawn vaginas.
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Created and Performed by: Emily Harrison
Dramaturg: Misri Dey
An Ode to South Shields
2020
This poem explores my complex relationship with my hometown of South Shields.
Are you even from an ex-mining, ex-industrial North East town if you're not bursting with a mixture of home pride, political frustrations and a passionate love of curry? (Kormas not included)
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Originally wrote to be performed at the launch of The Poetry & Prosecco charity night's hosted by the one and only Charlotte Hampshaw. ​It's because of Char that I have to confidence to create and share my work today. Thanks from the bottom of my Greggs loving northern soul Char, you're one in a million.
I always get so exited when I see the Tyne Bridge, no matter how far I've been, or how long I've been away,
when I see that bridge and it means I'm hyem
- Me Mam