Joseph Morpurgo

It's 1983 and the buildings are burning. Joseph Morpurgo emerges, petrol-sodden, from the wreckage. Laden with found footage, forgotten characters, and other relics from an imagined past, Morpurgo drags us – clumsily, one-by-one – into the depths of his comic fantasia. Batten down the hatches, Morpurgo's back!

Odessa is an homage to a non-existent history. Taking snippets of old VHS recordings, Morpurgo extrapolates on, deduces from, and triumphantly artefactualises a discarded past. With a fistful of bizarre and surreal characters, Morpurgo connects-the-dots between the crackle and the fuzz, and delivers a poignant tribute to a world of people who never existed.

Please be aware that strobe lighting is used during this performance.

'Odessa’ is an exhilarating trip into the tirelessly inventive mind of an obvious talent' (Time Out@

'A brilliantly ambitious and immersive piece of comic storytelling' (The Times)