DAMAGED GOODS – MEG STUART & TIM ETCHELLS
SHOWN AND TOLD
TUESDAY 29 OCTOBER 8PM £20
“Often playful, but always with an underlying serious intention, Shown and Told is a cleverly quirky, thought-provoking duet on the theme of communication.”
The Herald
“Understatement and mastery combined in this performance.”
Der Standard
Like boarded up windows, like stone steps, like the sound of voices from a far away room, like the smell of burning, like the way that condensation forms on windows, like searching for something, like searching through rooms. (Tim Etchells)
Shown and Told is a dynamic but fragile performance collage built from studio improvisation, balancing fixed material and possibilities for free-play. Arising from an exchange between Meg Stuart and writer and performance maker Tim Etchells, it exposes the different practice and sensibilities of these two artists, exploring the relationship between movement, image and performing bodies. Working with vivid and surprising images, some of them physical some of them linguistic, the two performers develop a conversation that is tough, touching and comical by turns.
Created and performed by Tim Etchells and Meg Stuart
Light design Gilles Roosen
Costumes Annabel Heyse
Technical coordinator Tom De Langhe
Light Tom Bruwier
Production Damaged Goods
Meg Stuart & Damaged Goods are supported by the Government of Flanders and the Flemish Community Commission.
