sick of love
- COMPANY: Athletes of the Heart VENUE: Rosemary Branch DATES: Tues 3 to Thurs 5 Nov to 9pm plus Wed 4 at 8pm PRICES: All tickets £5
EXTRA SHOW ADDED: Due to demand an extra show has been added at 8pm on Wed 4 Nov. Tickets must be booked via 020 7226 1787.
SICK OF LOVE explores erotic love via live animation of objects, text and music, extending director Anna Furse’s ongoing research into the body-in-performance.
SICK OF LOVE is a work in progress performance which evolved from an Incubate Research and Development at Little Angel Theatre, July 2009. Not suitable for under 15s.
The gentle, surreal humour of SICK OF LOVE is performed with the full presence of the animator-performers in view. Set on a large “double bed”, the audience sit around this in an intimate proximity to the action. Everything is conveyed through the manipulation of clothing and objects in a constant relationship with live flesh, muscle and bone, an experiment with the spectator’s attention, and with the close-up as a live performative possibility. Focusing attention on the inherent eroticism of certain objects and clothing and the emotional patina and history that certain materials can evoke by their very presence, the performance deliberately confuses the senses and mingles the human with the inanimate.
SICK OF LOVE launches the Athletes Laboratory – a research project based in the Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, working with a company of graduates from the MA in Performance Making that Anna Furse directs.
Direction/Scenography -Anna Furse
Lighting - Mischa Twitchin
Sound Composition - James Bulley
Text includes - Song of 'Songs from The Bible' / Roland Barthes’ 'The Lovers Discourse'
Performers - André Amálio, Tereza Havlickova, Alex Crowe, Dafne Louzioti, Vanio Papadelli, Borja Sagasti, Bruno Humberto
With special thanks to the Department of Drama, Goldsmiths and the Little Angel Theatre.
