Underground
2005
Inspired by Dostoyevsky's CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, UNDERGROUND created a world that was constantly shifting around the promenading audience, like a hallucinatory dream where scenes, sounds, fragments, chance encounters and film images merged, transformed or dissolved.
The production was originally created for the labyrinthine interconnecting backstage and basement areas of the THEATRE ROYAL BRIGHTON for THE BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2005. It was then re-created and redeveloped for a vast underground former abattoir in Clerkenwell for THE BARBICAN.
Co-commissioned by BITE:05 BARBICAN YOUNG GENIUS SEASON, THE BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2005, MADE IN BRIGHTON and SOUTH HILL PARK ARTS CENTRE.
Sponsored by THE OPEN UNIVERSITY and supported by ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND.