Exquisite Pain
Play :: show/work:S01308796558, production/tour:T01973082869Archive Listings
| 27 Sep 06 to 28 Sep 06 | Exquisite Pain Play :: listing:L770800712, production:T01973082869, show:S01308796558, venue: V568 | Northern Stage (previously known as Newcastle Haymarket Playhouse) Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne and Wear |
| 16 Feb 06 | Exquisite Pain Play :: listing:L94504114, production:T01973082869, show:S01308796558, venue: V673 | Gulbenkian Theatre Canterbury Kent |
| 16 Jan 06 to 18 Jan 06 | Exquisite Pain Play :: listing:L760191171, production:T01973082869, show:S01308796558, venue: V156 | Warwick Arts Centre Coventry West Midlands |
| 11 Nov 05 to 12 Nov 05 | Exquisite Pain Play :: listing:L477417483, production:T01973082869, show:S01308796558, venue: V483 | Contact Theatre Manchester Greater Manchester |
| 1 Nov 05 to 6 Nov 05 | Exquisite Pain Play :: listing:L1921618034, production:T01973082869, show:S01308796558, venue: V331 | Riverside Studios Outer London Greater London |
| 21 Oct 05 to 22 Oct 05 | Exquisite Pain Play :: listing:L721481429, production:T01973082869, show:S01308796558, venue: V522 | Nuffield Theatre (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts) Lancaster Lancashire |
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. 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.
