Forum
Date: Thursday 4 September 2025, 6-9 pm
Location: The Perimeter
Performances by: Sophie Cundale, Edward Thomasson and Jaya Twill
The Perimeter is pleased to introduce; Forum, a new programme series of artist performances. The inaugural 2025 event presents an evening of works by Sophie Cundale, Edward Thomasson and Jaya Twill. For this year’s presentation, Forum investigates artists engaged with the deterioration of theatrical artifice, questioning the methodologies of staging through traditional and experimental formats of performance making.
Edward Thomasson shares Let This Longing Lead Me (2024). Performed by Thomasson and his regular collaborators, this work uses song, dance and spoken word to explore desire as a forward motion. The ensemble brings a range of experiences to the work: some have formal training; others sing in community choirs or perform in more informal settings. Each performer finds their own distinct way through the song and dance sequence. They perform side by side, together but separate.
Sophie Cundale presents Degrees of Freedom (2025) the first act of a new play performed by Sophie and her frequent collaborator, actor Bryony Miller. The title refers to a term used in biomechanics to describe the number of independent movements that a joint or a body can perform.
Jaya Twill stages Lambs Jump From Nowhere (2025) using traditional choreographic forms and synchronicity as a method of communication. This duet incorporates text, music, and dance to present an idyllic romanticisation of Texan culture. A love letter to America; two stepping, country music, a southern belle, and handsome boy in army green. Twill dramatizes the contradictions of nationalism and public opinion, and the glorification of violence.
About the Artists
Edward Thomasson (b. Stoke-on-Trent, UK. Lives and works in London, UK) makes plays, performances, videos and drawings about the complexity of social and sexual interaction. Often collaborating with groups of trained and untrained performers, his work uses song, dance and enactment to describe the ways we come together to try to understand each other and build relationships.
Sophie Cundale (b. London, UK.) is a multidisciplinary artist based in London. Often centred around relationships between lovers and set within heightened scenarios, her work is about the construction and embrace of fantasy.
Jaya Twill (b. Austin, Texas. Lives and works in London, UK) is an actress, writer and artist who explores power structures through ritualistic performance work. Interested in staging drama outside of theatrical spaces, particularly by employing traditional acting methodologies within fine art environments, the artist presents the theatre of propaganda with a focus on Americana, consumption, and hysteria.
Cast
Let This Longing Lead Me is performed by Adrian Quinton, Callum Murphy, Clara Andersson, Edward Thomasson, Penelope Granycome, Simon Tipping and Yasmine Holness-Dove. The work includes music by Robbie Ellen.
Degrees of Freedom is performed by Bryony Miller and Sophie Cundale.
Lambs Jump From Nowhere is performed by Henry Gibbs and Jaya Twill, with a score by Raphael Ninot and lights by Enzo Randolfi.
All photography by Melanie Issaka.
