We Hope You Are Happy
(Why Would We Lie)

Thursday 29th November, 7.30pm
Full £10 | Conc £6 | Schools & Colleges £5 | Age 16+

Presented by BAC Take Out

Jess is stuck. Her lifelong friend, Chris, can’t help. The others are out getting wasted. And the world is falling apart. Luckily Jess and Chris have a cooler full of beer, a goofy rapport, a series of dance moves – and a sincere desire to make you, the audience, happy. Or so they claim.

They also claim that each other are liars. That they only met last year. And that they are eyewitnesses to the key world events of the last hundred years.

A flat-out, unhinged and very normal performance about trying to connect: to the person next to you and to the unknown victim of a televised tragedy.

We Hope That You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?) is a hilarious and unsettling examination of what it means to be a tuned-in, delusional and unwitting consumer in a hyper-communicative world.

“A very carefully written and effectively realised piece of theatre, words, physical actions and visual images all balanced beautifully”
Total Theatre Magazine

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Ordinary Courage

‘We are defined by how well we rise after falling’

Thursday 6th December, 7.30pm
Full £8 | Conc £5 | Schools & Colleges £5 | Age 16+

Renowned dancer, Theo Clinkard creates a rousing new group work that brims with highly charged and eloquent physicality.

Set to a haunting original score by Alan Stones, including live piano, ORDINARY COURAGE follows a community in repair, harnessing the capacity for movement and touch to communicate when words are not enough. A stripped back space, starkly lit by Zerlina Hughes, becomes the canvas for breathtaking performances.

Clinkard completes an outstanding six-strong cast drawn from the likes of Random Dance, Akram Khan, Richard Alston, Siobhan Davies, Sydney Dance Company and Australian Dance Theatre.

“When you have Theo Clinkard on stage, who wants to be distracted?” The Times

Made possible with the generous support of South East Dance, Trinity Laban, The Point, Pavilion Dance South West, Greenwich Dance, Chichester University, Bath ICIA, Dance Art Foundation and Arts Council England.

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