DCSIMG AND ON THE THOUSANDTH NIGHT… ARTIST OF THE CITY 2014

AND ON THE THOUSANDTH NIGHT…

AndON-13-300 foto de Hugo Glendinning

FORCED ENTERTAINMENT

22nd March
CULTURGEST
Saturday, 6 pm; Main Auditorium; Duration 6h (The public can walk in and out)
Tickets 5€
Age +16

 

And on the Thousandth Night… explores the live relationship between a story and its public, a story and its tellers. A story is told, made up live, dragged from memory by a line of performers dressed as Kings and Queens, wearing cheap red cloaks and cardboard crowns. It is a long, mutating and endlessly self-cancelling story. It is a story which somehow, in its many dips and turns, seems to include many — if not all — of the stories in the world. The Kings and Queens compete, interrupting, exaggerating, taking over each other’s narratives and incorporating stolen bits into their own tales. Their storytelling moves between tiredness and hysteria, between absurd vulgarity and surprising tenderness. It is a unique theatrical experience.

Conceived and devised by Forced Entertainment
Performers Robin Arthur, Tim Etchells, Phil Hayes, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden and Terry O’Connor
Direction Tim Etchells
Design Richard Lowdon
Lighting Design Nigel Edwards
Première setembro de 2000, Festival Ayloul (Beirute)