Use Blue For Night
Thursday 28 August to Saturday 30 August 8pm
£6/£4
Use Blue For Night is a collaboration between Forced Entertainment’s Cathy Naden, Contact Young Actor’s Company and lighting designer Nigel Edwards.
Taking place on a stripped-down empty stage, Use Blue For Night turns the theatre itself into something between a toy box and a basement workshop.
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.
Cathy Naden is a founder member of Forced Entertainment and has devised and performed with the company since 1984 as well as pursuing her own projects as a performer and as a writer in other contexts. Described by The Guardian as '
Forced Entertainment have over the last 24 years continually strived to find new theatre forms with which to describe contemporary urban life. Introducing CYAC to Forced Entertainment’s trademark collaborative process, Cathy Naden will work with the young actors to create a show that is funny, inventive, and full of surprises.
Forced Entertainment’s playful and provocative new show Spectacular will be performed at Contact on Tues 18 – Sat 22 November. For more information or to book tickets call 0161 274 0600.
www.forcedentertainment.com
