Performance

VenueContact Theatre
Other spaces: Brickhouse Studio
TownManchester
CountyGreater Manchester
From11th November 2005
To12th November 2005
When19:30
PricesFrom £6.00. To £10.00.
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Exquisite Pain

T01973082869
A man and a woman tell stories of ordinary and not-so-ordinary heart-break, each story accompanied by a single iconic image. A red telephone on a hotel bed. A subway station. The view from a window. A green Mercedes. The woman repeatedly recounts the story of the end of an affair; remembering it differently each time, while the man tells stories from many different people; snapshots of sorrow in a catalogue of suffering, break-ups, humiliations, deaths, bad dentistry and love letters that never arrive.

Archive :: production:T01973082869, play:S01308796558, venue:V483

Production details

Based on a project by renowned French conceptual artist Sophie Calle, this extraordinarily simple and intimate performance from Forced Entertainment explores how language, memory and forgetting move to contain, preserve or erase events; how people come to terms with trauma. Exquisite Pain is about love, loss, and the stories we tell ourselves when things have gone wrong. Co-producers: Theater der Welt 2005 (Stuttgart), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), The National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture (Oslo), Kaaitheater (Brussels), La Filature, scene nationale de Mulhouse, Tanzquartier Wien.

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Company

Company Forced Entertainment
Director Tim Etchells
Design Richard Lowdon
Lighting Nigel Edwards
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