PuSh Festival presents England
By zquinn on December 2, 2008 - 10:14pm
Jan 28 - 31, 7 & 9pm
Vancouver Art Gallery
Two guides in a gallery. Two lovers with a lifestyle to maintain. Two hearts beating four thousand miles apart. Translations. Transactions. A transplantation.
ENGLAND is the story of a search for a new heart. It’s a story about a life saved and an illness overcome at any cost. It’s a tour through spaces and across borders: from an art gallery to a jam factory, from London to Osaka, from a hospital bed to a hotel room.
It's a tour to the end of the world.
Taking place within an exhibition, the play continues Tim Crouch’s fascination with the nature of the theatrical experience; the communication of an idea from actor to audience… and back again.
news from nowhere was formed in 2003 to produce the work of Tim Crouch, last seen in Vancouver at 2007’s PuSh Festival with my arm and an oak tree. Having been an actor for 15 years, Crouch started to make work in response to his frustrations about contemporary theatre. The first production was my arm, the story of the boy who puts one arm above his head and then never takes it down. It set a model for the thoughts and forms that have come to characterize Crouch’s practice: a simple, de-materialized staging, a powerful narrative and an invitation to the audience to co-author their experience. an oak tree (2005) and ENGLAND (2007) consolidated these thoughts and practices.
www.newsfromnowhere.net
For more info: www.pushfestival.ca
Tickets $26.00/22.00
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