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Sally Boon

Loughborough
Mardy Arts: a partnership between Sally Boon and Neil Broughton
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We are absurdists who make performances, which do not fit neatly into a category.

Queenie Tea is a provocation. She is Sally's alter-ego. She does not follow the rules. She is often mistaken as a children’s entertainer but she does not tolerate children! Queenie Tea is celebrating her 15th year of ‘being’ and Mardyarts, are committed to placing Queenie in a variety of performance contexts, enabling diverse audiences to encounter her, thereby furthering the ongoing development of the concept of ‘Queenie Tea’. Queenie Tea raises questions surrounding the notion of ‘What is Art?’. She understands that she is an artistic concept embodied in a ‘character’.

The Palimpsisters combine Neil's musicianship and Sally's skills as a dancer.

Drowning Not Raving is their current work that was originally  performed at Tempting Failure, Croydon 2018 and Edinburgh Festival Fringe and most recently at Brighton Fringe in 2024.

The Palimpsisters are keen to work in collaboration with other experts/artists. Particularly, experts from other fields. Their first collaboration has been with Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy.  

Queenie's Tea Party - December 12th 2019

In October of 2019 Sally and Neil entered Queenie Tea into the parlimentary race to become the next local MP for Loughborough. 

Queenie has been rather quiet since the COVID Pandemic but has been seen out and about at Art events both locally, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where she holds her annual Queenie Quiz and Latitude Festival July 2024.

 

On The Verge

Mardyarts toured a number of performance pieces between 2006 - 2010. Performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe under the name of ‘On The Verge’.

 

Queenie Tea

Queenie Tempts Fete

Tea With Queenie

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