FICTION
You are invited to a lecture. You know that the subject is probably important and it would be useful to hear what the speaker has to say but you can’t keep your eyes open
You will fall asleep and you will dream
But you won’t be alone in your dream; everyone else will be there with you. And you will have a chaperone who knows the landscape and will attend to you. So nothing can go wrong...
Fiction is the second performance by Glen Neath and David Rosenberg using binaural sound and absolute darkness. It is an anxious journey through the sprawling architecture of our dreams and an exercise in empathy
Or it is an opportunity to get a 60 minute nap
Fiction is not suitable for insomniacs
Cast: Christopher Brett Bailey, Colin Michael Carmichael, Karen Cogan, Cath Dyson, Lloyd Hutchinson and Eugénie Pastor
Cast for Scratch: Gemma Brockis, Jenna Watt and Simon Kane
By Glen Neath and David Rosenberg
Sound by Max & Ben Ringham
Video work by Susanne Dietz
Produced by Fuel
Performances:
Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival, 4,5 October 2014
Oxford Playhouse, 9,10 October 2014
Malvern Theatre, 14 October 2014
mac, Birmingham, 16,17 October 2014
Axis Arts Centre, Crewe, 23 October 2014
The Junction, Cambridge, 28,29 October 2014
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester, 30 October 2014
Folkestone Quarterhouse, 31 October 2014
Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate, 1 November 2014
The Continental, Preston, 7,8 November 2014
Unity Theatre, Liverpool, 27,28 February 2015
BAC, London, 3-21 March 2015
BAC, London, 7-17 July 2015
Latitude Festival, Henham Park, Sussex, 19 July 2015
Edinburgh Fringe Festival at Ace Dome, Pleasance, 5-30 August 2015
Hamar, Norway, 6 October 2016
Globalize Festival, Freihandelszone-Ensemblenetzwerk, Cologne, 21 November 2016
Wolverhampton Arena, 9 February 2017
UCLan, Preston, 11 February 2017
Northern Stage, Newcastle, 14,15 February 2017
The Lowry, Salford, 17 February 2017
The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter, 7-10 November 2017
Showbox Festival, Riksteatret, Oslo, 29,30 November 2017
BAC, London, 6-8 February 2018
Scratch performance:
FuelFest, BAC, London, 9 November 2013
‘As soon as it's over - even earlier, in fact, while it's still going on - it starts to lapse from your memory, fading like an afterimage on your retina. It's the equivalent of a self-destructing letter. It exists to disappear. That's a fascinating prospect: a self-defeating show; theatre so ephemeral it might as well not have happened... Fiction makes for a unique theatrical encounter about the power of suggestion and the workings of your subconscious’ - Matt Trueman, Whatsonstage ★★★★
‘The piece is disorientating and incredibly, intentionally slippery’ - Natasha Tripney, The Stage ★★★★
‘It’s terrifically clever, cunningly manipulative, and fun – provided you’re not scared of the dark’ - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
‘The production is slick. It’s beyond slick; it’s incredible. At one point we walk into a room and it fucking smells different’ - Mary Haltom, Exeunt Magazine
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Trailer by Susanne Dietz here
The Future Laboratory interview here
The Vile Blog interview here
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Commissioned by Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Cambridge Junction and Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival
Funded by Arts Council England and a Wellcome Trust Arts Award
Developed through Fuel’s Jerwood Residencies at Cove Park which are supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation