Using music, projection and more than 200 sound cues, Manchester’s 1121 Collective presents outdoor speeding / an ambulance musical, an ambitious new production aiming to push at the boundaries of the city’s fringe theatre scene.
Touching on loss, isolation, fanaticism, and the failure of capitalism, outdoor speeding—at the Zifferblat Café on Edge Street May 20 to 21 and 27 to 28—is a piece of new writing deploying technology to examine the gap between what we feel and what we do.
Facing an immediate and painful end at the age of 11, Katie searches both her real and imagined future. Using scrapbooks, photographs and fictional holographic memory technology, she recalls everything from her first kiss to the death of the universe.
Drawing on anime, relativity theory, and German electronic music, outdoor speeding / an ambulance musical is described as “an energetic and anarchic journey through time and space rooted firmly in the now”.
After its run of A-Bomb on Broadway at Manchester’s HOME theatre, The 1121 Collective has staged four productions across the UK. Its focus is on developing new and challenging pieces of work which explore the possibilities of theatre.