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Dateline: 30th September, 2005
Theatre Absolute, whose production of Chris Connell's Street Trilogy, premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe, have gained the company a reputation for high-energy, hard-edged theatre, will be performing Connell's latest work Cloud:Burst at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio on 31st October and 1st November. The production is part of the Firsts programme organised by ROH2. Following a sell out season last year, Firsts introduces new talented artists to the Royal Opera House, presenting startling, surprising and totally original performances from some of the most innovative artists working in the UK today. When your face becomes public property because of the bad deeds of others, how can life ever be normal again?
Dominic's 10 year old daughter Natalie has been murdered. After weeks of his story being splashed across the world's media, the reporters and the TV trucks move out and on to another headline grabber. Left to pick up the pieces, Dominic is unable to accept that his story no longer holds currency; that he is expected to return to normality. Caught in a rage of attention seeking behaviour, his life begins to fall apart. Performed by Graeme Hawley (recently seen in Car and Raw from Street Trilogy), with a compelling soundtrack by Andy Garbi (Channel 4 Film Music Award winner), Cloud:Burst is the company's first new piece since the conclusion of award winning Street Trilogy earlier this year. Using a continuous soundtrack of music, set against a fractured and poetic text, Cloud:Burst exists in the same extreme worlds of Street Trilogy, but strips away the epic span of Car, Raw and Kid to focus on the intimacy of one voice. After the ROH performances, Cloud:Burst will then play at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol on 8th and 9th November. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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