‘Listen, Tracey, why don’t you take that brick, pop it in your gob...': Emin stars in the Oona King Diaries

 
26 February 2013

Baroness King of Bow really was shaking things up in the Lords last night, where a dramatisation of her 2007 memoirs, The Oona King Diaries: House Music, was performed to celebrate its ebook publication.

Comedian David Schneider and King’s cousin, actor Ed Stoppard, impersonated her in an adaptation by playwright Tanika Gupta. But it was her account of trying to calm down one particularly belligerent constituent, artist Tracey Emin, that provoked the wildest laughter. “I wanted to say to her, ‘Listen, Tracey, why don’t you take that brick, pop it in your gob, pour some formaldehyde over it, and exhibit the latest Tracey Emin Brit Art installation IN SILENCE, hanging from a noose?’”

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