TWO SHOWS AT THE LOWRY, SALFORD QUAYS
25th - 28th may 2011
Lorca is dead
by Dominic J Allen
25 - 28 may
It’s the year 1920 or something; the dust has started to settle on a Europe splintered by war. Out of the ashes emerges one of the most notorious art movements of the 20th century, Surrealism.
Dominic J Allen’s interactive play, totally sold out at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe, beckons you in to the world of the Surrealists as the likes of Artaud, Bunuel, Magritte and Salvador Dali welcome you as their colleagues. Whatever role you cast yourself in, throw caution to the wind and join them in their attempt to weave sense through a world that makes none. Join them as they drag you into their bickering over group politics, capitalist sell-outs and repressed sexualities and be prepared to pick your place as you play jury to their vicious disputes.
Soon the actual evening’s purpose of the Bureau of Surrealist research comes to light: a lamenting pageant in memory of the persecuted Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca. Play your part in the retelling of his life alongside those that knew him best as the construct of time travels a path that leads to the poet, Europe and indeed the Surrealists being changed forever. At times hilarious, at others heartbreaking this is a play that twists and transforms for each audience. The only certainty being that when the clock of history sounds the end, Lorca is dead.
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Antigone
by Alexander Wright after Sophocles
Based on Sophocles’ timeless tale of politics, family feuds and rituals, Alexander Wright’s new adaptation – a total sell out at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe - is a melodic portrait of a family in the wake of devastation. Telling the story of Antigone, a princess faced with an impossible decision and the astounding repercussions this has upon her family and more dangerously, the entire country.
‘tugs the heartstrings to the point of breaking’
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