COMMS FAIL (monologue)
Chapter, Cardiff, 2026. Image Credit: Jennifer Taylor

COMMS FAIL
Bluecoat, Liverpool, 2026. Image Credit: Ben Nuttall

Written, devised and produced by Roy Claire Potter | Performed by Roy Claire Potter, Lucy Enderby, Alex Symington, Anya Taylor, Jamie Gawronski and Rima Salem | Set design by Roy Claire Potter with contributions from Jamie Gawronski, Elodie Horsewell, Andrew Li, Rima Salem and Anya Taylor | Music composed by Carmel Smickersgill | Additional sounds by Jamie Gawronski, Roy Claire Potter, Peter Messmer and Philippe Zarka | Arrangement and audio production by Kit Callin | Technical production by William Rose | Technical assistance from Elodie Horsewell | Unlimited UK Partner Award 2025 commission with Liverpool Biennial made possible thanks to funding from Arts Council England.

 

Improvised performance with Park Jiha
Counterflows Festival, Glasgow, 2022. Image Credit: Dawid Laskowski

 
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A bridge can tell a flood nothing, performed at ‘Under The Bridge’ cur. Mark Leckey
Tate Britain, London, 2019. Image Credit: Dan Weill

 
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Improvised performance with Ziúr, performed at Wysing Polyphonic Music Festival, cur. Somerset House
Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, 2019. Image Credit: Jay Parekh

 
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The Shooting of Aftershave Man, performed at ‘Preramble’ cur. Jude Browning
David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, 2020. Image Credit: courtesy of the gallery

 

Aftershave Man, performed at ‘An evening out at Primary with Roy Claire Potter, Kieron Piercy, and friends’ part of my Work In Common residency
Primary, Nottingham, 2019. Image Credit: Reece Straw

 

Playhouse (Creep), performed at ‘ORGASMIC STREAMING   ORGANIC GARDENING ELECTROCULTURE’ cur. Karen Di Franco and Irene Revell, ChelseaSPACE, London, 2018. Image Credit: Vanda Playford

 

Rich Curtains: Performance of Stile, performed at ‘SNOW CRASH’ cur. Kirsten Cooke
IMT Gallery, London, 2018. Image Credit: Various Audience

 

Calico, performed with percussion by Rattle, loops by Rachael Finney, saxophone by Tom Ward, and additional sounds by Alex Baker, Ben Trinkle, Ben Tupper and Cath Roberts, at ‘Going Along Without A Body’ cur. Benjamin Owen
Iklectik Arts Lab, London, 2018. Video Credit: Mark Simms

 

Catenary, performed at ‘Coupler’, Xero, Kline and Coma, London, 2017. Image Credit: Galia Kollectiv.
Adapted for ‘Supernormal’ music festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, 2017. Image Credit: Matilda Strang

 

Touching, performed at ‘Mene Mene Tekel Parsin’, cur. Jesse Darling
Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, 2017. Video Credit: Wilf Speller

 
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Performance with Bridget Hayden, performed at ‘Supernormal’ music festival
Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, 2016. Image courtesy of the organisers

 

Two Meet, improvised performance as part of my Library Interventions residency at Leeds College of Art
Leeds College of Art, West Yorkshire, 2016. Image courtesy of the organisers

 

Touching, performed at ‘Smargniture’, cur. Natasha Soobramanien and Daniela Cascella
Lydgalleriet Bergen, Norway, 2016. Image courtesy of the organisers

 

Touching, performed at ‘ACTION Poetry’, cur. Victorian Grey and Nathan Walker
Oui Performance, York, 2016. Image courtesy of the organisers

 

Posh Man’s Pet, performed at ‘The Other Room’
The Castle Hotel, Manchester, 2015. Image Credit: Francesco Cuttitta