STORY #1
Story #1 is a reckless, reflective, live thinking-through of how and why we construct narrative.
"Imagine a bullfight without the bull: it would be a set of aesthetic manoeuvres, pretty twirls and pirouettes and so on – but there’d be no danger. The bull, crucially, brings danger to the party... that’s what the real is: the tip of the bull’s horn.” Tom McCarthy
Rachel Mars and Greg Wohead take Pixar’s 22 Rules for Storytelling and How Stories Make Us Human, make them f*** each other, kidnap the resulting baby and dance out a prophecy of its future life before its barely opened eyes.
We promise no less than 120 minutes.
We promise real fictional characters.
We promise a plot.
We promise a surprise twist.
We promise a rupture.
We promise an ending.
We promise a rupture.
Story #1 is like a live grenade thrown at television: a thrilling exploration of truth, fiction and the strange space between. Funny, tender, shocking and sly, it’s an adventure in being an audience that asks the only real question: what happens next?
Jonathan Wakeham, Screenwriter
Brilliant, scintillating, guillotine catching the sunlight as it falls dazzling, but also horrible. The violence of it, rendered in such needlepoint detail; none of it is shown, and so it’s seen all the more vividly in the mind.
Maddy Costa, Exeunt.
As our first collaboration, this project was an invitation Greg and I made to ourselves to create something very unlike what we'd tackled previously in our solo work. Despite having made a lot of contemporary performance that dispenses with narrative, we realised neither had much basic experience of committing to constructing a story from start to finish, and so that provocation was ticklish. This is the result.
Previous Performances:
OVALHOUSE, London | Chapter Arts Centre| Fusebox Festival Austin | The Yard Theatre | Malavoadora, Porto| The House, Plymouth | Colchester Arts Centre|
Made with a seed commission from Ovalhouse
This performance contains explicit sexual content and images and is therefore recommended for ages 18+
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