L’addition
Tim Etchells/Bert & Nasi (UK/France)
- Sat Jan 25 7:30pm
- Sun Jan 26 7:30pm
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Two men at a restaurant. One is a waiter. The other, a customer. Perfectly normal. Or so it seems. The customer orders a drink. The waiter pours. What follows is an unpredictable descent into chaos, where a seemingly commonplace interaction is fractured into an absurdist kaleidoscope of angles.
The comedic duo’s contrasting personalities create an interplay of synergy and discord, illustrating the shifting balance between cooperation and conflict. Trapped in a single scene with no clear logical progression or linear narrative structure, the two performers begin to reflect something altogether disorienting about the directionlessness of the modern world.
The perfectly timed rhythm of their banter and cyclical choreography of gestures create a musicality that surpasses the stark stage. The relentless tug-of-war in power dynamics leads to misunderstandings that call communication into question as a vehicle for meaning and reveal the incoherent, nonsensical, yet utterly comical nature of life.
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Artist Bio
Tim Etchells / Bert & Nasi
Tim Etchells is an artist and a writer based in the UK whose work shifts between performance, visual art and fiction. Etchells has worked in a wide variety of contexts, notably as the leader of the world-renowned Sheffield-based performance group Forced Entertainment. Etchells’ work has been shown recently at Cubitt, Hayward Gallery and Bloomberg SPACE in London, at Turner Contemporary and Compton Verney in the UK, at Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands Media Art Institute (Amsterdam) and MUHKA (Antwerp). Currently Professor of Performance & Writing at Lancaster University, he was a Tate / Live Art Development Agency ‘Legacy: Thinker In Residence’ Award winner in 2008, Artist of the City of Lisbon in 2014 and he received the prestigious Spalding Gray Award in February 2016.
Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutas are a contemporary performance duo that met in 2015 and have since created an entire repertoire of shows in the midst of a period of national and international austerity. Their work, in turn, is stripped back and minimalist though it deals with complex ideas and emotions, lying somewhere between performance, dance and theatre. In each of their shows, they celebrate the encounter with the audience deconstructing the model of live performance. They always seek to create a sincere and intimate connection with the spectators. Their shows have a nostalgic feel of an old friendship that you didn’t know existed. Together they have performed their shows on the international stages of PuSh Festival (Canada), Festival de Otoño (Spain), Sarajevo Mess (Bosnia), Adelaide International Festival (Australia), InTeatro (Italy), Avignon Festival (France) as well as MiTsp (Brazil). In 2020, Bert and Nasi received the Forced Entertainment Award in memory of Huw Chadbourn, which celebrates the work of contemporary artists reinventing theatre and performance in new ways and for new audiences.
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Venue
6161 Cambie St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3B2
Showtimes
- January 25: 7:30pm
- January 26: 7:30pm
Post-show talkback: Jan 25 (French) & Jan 26 (English)
Tickets
Single Tickets: $39
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Access
In French with English surtitles on Jan 25
Relaxed Performance on Jan 26
ASL Interpretation on Jan 26
Credits
Director Tim Etchells Text by Tim Etchells with Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas Devised and performed by Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas Lighting Design Alex Fernandes Composer & Sound Design Graeme Miller Production Management Forced Entertainment