Ground-breaking CYAC collaboration

Thursday 14 August

The send-off for Contact’s summer season is a ground-breaking collaboration between the UK's most celebrated experimental theatre company - Forced Entertainment - and the UK's finest company for young actors - Contact Young Actor’s Company (CYAC). Assembling a show from a bare glossary of theatrical essentials, the piece sees twenty-five performers slip and slide between the job of acting and that of stagehands, as they tinker and toil with the invention of theatrical effects and stage devices. Burning through entrances and exits, crowd scenes, spot-lit solos, loud music, silences, slow fades and blackouts, Use Blue For Night is about creating the right conditions for the perfect theatrical moment; the moment when simple stage directions are transformed into a kind of magic; the moment when stuff starts to happen. Taking place on a stripped-down empty stage, this playful and provocative new show turns the theatre itself into something between a toy box and a basement workshop. 'one of Britain’s greatest theatre companies'. The Guardian on Forced Entertainment For more information please click here ...