Battersea Arts Centre - November 2012
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
NEXT month, following a highly acclaimed European tour, international innovators Forced Entertainment are returning to Battersea Arts Centre with The Coming Storm – from November 20 to December 1, 2012.
From love and death to sex and laundry, personal anecdotes rub shoulders with imaginary movies, and half-remembered novels bump into distorted fairytales.
Employing devices from amateur dramatics, puppet theatre, song and naive dance, they tell an epic story that, according to the press release, is resolutely too big for the stage.
Tickets: £17, £13 concessions.
Time: 7.30.
Running Time: 105 minutes.
Running alongside The Coming Storm, BAC presents Sight is the Sense that Dying People Tend To Lose First, a solo piece by Tim Etchells, Artistic Director of Forced Entertainment – from November 22 to November 24.
Performed by Jim Fletcher, last seen in London as the lead in the sell-out production of Gatz, Sight is the Sense that Dying People Tend To Lose First is a long form monologue exploring the absurdity and horror of consciousness as it tries, and fails, to seize and define everything that it encounters.
Tickets: £10, £8 concessions.
Time: 8.30pm on November 22 and 24, 10.15pm on November 23.
Running Time: 60 minutes.
From November 21 to November 24, Clout Theatre is presenting How A Man Crumbled, winner of the Physical Fest Audience Award 2012.
Clout Theatre invite audiences to dive head first into the absurd world of the Russian poet, iconoclast and false moustache wearer Daniil Kharms.
Three bouffonesque characters intent on telling The Old Woman story let narrative escape them as comic vignettes, metaphysical ponderings and bouts of senseless violence provide constant distraction. Expressionist silent film meets grotesque slapstick in a world where clocks have no hands and a cucumber can kill a man.
Tickets: £10, £8 concessions.
Time: 7pm.
Running Time: 60 minutes.
On November 23, BAC is hosting Neon Friday, an event celebrating the diversity of Etchells’ work. Both theatrical pieces will be presented, alongside the launch of Etchells’ latest book Vacuum Days, film installations, a selection of his neon signage pieces around the building and unusual cocktails designed by Etchells himself.
The Good Neighbour continues at Battersea Arts Centre until November 4, 2012. And for Christmas, Kneehigh is presenting Midnight’s Pumpkin.