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THEATRE ABSOLUTE / Image: Zero / Photographer: Andrew Moore

Image: Zero
Photographer: Andrew Moore
THEATRE ABSOLUTE

Text-based: Heavy|New writing

SCALE OF VENUE
Small

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director/Writer
Chris O’Connell
Producer
Julia Negus

ARTISTIC POLICY
Theatre Absolute commissions, produces, and tours new plays that are bold, uncompromising, and contemporary. The company’s work has a hard-edged aesthetic that is founded on a heightened narrative text and strong use of rhythm, music, and soundscape. The work tells the stories of ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations to create an intensely emotional experience for both actor and audience alike.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Theatre at its best.  
Hang Lenny Pope, British Theatre Guide
Reaffirms O’Connell as an important voice.  
Evening Standard (Kid)
Real gold.
The Scotsman (Car)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
ZERO
The play takes an explosive and anarchic start at the ethics of torture and the curse of censorship. Strong language. 90 minutes, no interval.
4 male and 1 female actors. 7 cast and crew on the road
Cloud:burst
Audiences are thrust into the world of Dominic, a man grieving over the murder of his pre-teen daughter.

Grief is only one emotion that the man experiences as he attempts to integrate the reality of the murder into his psyche.
Strong language. 40 minutes. No interval. 1 male actor. 3 on the road.

WRAP-AROUND
Theatre and writing workshops available, led by writer and artistic director Chris O’Connell. The theatre workshops use ZERO as a starting point and explores major components at the heart of Theatre Absolute’s work. The participants will be challenged to get to grips with the creation of an imaginative framework, with character, language, story, and soundscape. Often these components begin as the smallest of ideas, so how can they be worked up, and how do they become the spine around which Theatre Absolute makes its work. Duration 2 hours.

TOURING AVAILABILITY
ZERO (spring 2009)
Cloud:burst (spring 2009)