Presented with The Cultch
"Crouch's wonderful text begins to reveal layer after layer of poetic depth…" -
The ScotsmanJan 28 - 31, 2009 7 & 9pmRunning time 60m
By
Tim Crouch Co-direction
Karl James and a smith Sound design
Dan Jones Performers
Tim Crouch and Hannah Ringham Technical Manager
Chris UmneyTwo guides in a gallery. Two lovers with a lifestyle to maintain. Two hearts beating four thousand miles apart. Translations. Transactions. A transplantation.
ENGLAND is the story of a search for a new heart. It’s a story about a life saved and an illness overcome at any cost. It’s a tour through spaces and across borders: from an art gallery to a jam factory, from London to Osaka, from a hospital bed to a hotel room.
It's a tour to the end of the world.
Taking place within an exhibition, the play continues Tim Crouch’s fascination with the nature of the theatrical experience; the communication of an idea from actor to audience… and back again.
news from nowhere was formed in 2003 to produce the work of Tim Crouch, last seen in Vancouver at 2007’s PuSh Festival with my arm and an oak tree. Having been an actor for 15 years, Crouch started to make work in response to his frustrations about contemporary theatre. The first production was my arm, the story of the boy who puts one arm above his head and then never takes it down. It set a model for the thoughts and forms that have come to characterize Crouch’s practice: a simple, de-materialized staging, a powerful narrative and an invitation to the audience to co-author their experience. an oak tree (2005) and ENGLAND (2007) consolidated these thoughts and practices.
www.newsfromnowhere.net | clip from ENGLAND
