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Fictitious avant-garde performance troupe, 'Slash Theatre', reveal the uncanny links between the trance induction techniques, the body enhancement practices, and the shamanic rituals of the North American Kickapoo tribe. Devised from fragments of hypnotic tracks and personal development seminars, this show has the look and feel of an absurd comic parody whilst subtly engaging with questions of purpose, self-belief and commitment. Is scepticism a defence? And does it matter that we are being duped if, like the placebo effect, all that's required is belief in the process? And so, in cheap wigs and bad accents we invite the audience to take a leap of faith and make-believe we really can access their unconscious minds and transform their lives: because, after all, perhaps we can. Fake Hip Gnosis, appears on two afternoons towards the end of the festival at the Rialto theatre.

Creatives/Company

Company: Slash Theatre