Sally Kettle's show must rank as one of the most bizarre live performances ever staged.

She sits in a bookshop window brushing her hair, sometimes clipping her toe and finger nails. The hair and the nail clippings fall to the ground.

Passers-by watch as she and a group of fellow drama students on a rota basis carry out the everyday personal hygiene tasks in a shop window in the centre of Brighton.

At the end of each performance of Collection, the hairs and nail clippings are gathered into jars.

These are being woven into threads for costumes for their next performance.

Already the costumes are beginning to take shape, and could easily pass for every day clothing, apart from the roughness.

Sally, 23, has created the live production as part of her studies for a BA in theatre and visual projects at Brighton University.

The curtain came down on the show at the weekend due to the 'theatre' closing - Waterstone's shop in North Street is being transferred to the larger premises by the Clock Tower.

Comments and reaction from shoppers, including mooning by a group of young men, have been recorded by fellow drama students.

Sally says she has learned a lot about human reactions and behaviour as a result the show in the heart of Brighton's main shopping area. Sally insists she has got her feet on the ground. She has just bought a house in Kemp Town Brighton with her boyfriend, who works as a computer consultant in London.

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