Suspect Culture: The Escapologist
Suspect Culture is one of Scotland’s leading theatre companies, working collaboratively to bring a fresh and distinctive approach to new work. To Suspect Culture, a collaborative approach means giving text, design, music and performance equal weight in all their work.
Whilst working primarily in theatre, the company also develops work in other media and curates an annual symposium called Strange Behaviour, which seeks to explore relationships between theatre and other apparently unrelated disciplines.
Suspect Culture’s new show premieres at Tramway in Glasgow on 13 January 2006.
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The Escapologist follows a psychotherapist as he delves into the conscious and unconscious desires of his patients. Feeling increasingly sceptical about the powers of his own profession he starts to take flight into fantasies of the greatest escape artist of them all, Harry Houdini. |
Developed over the course of 18 months the show is inspired by Adam Phillips book Houdini’s Box, and features re-enactments of some of Houdini’s stunts as part of the storytelling. Director Graham Eatough explains his motivations behind adapting the work:
'When I first read Houdini’s Box, I was immediately struck by how theatrical it is. I don’t mean you read it and think “this book should be a play” but just that the contrast between the contemporary themes around therapy and the performance of Houdini’s stunts seemed like a very theatrical combination and ideal material for a Suspect Culture show.'
A co-production with Tramway and the Drum Theatre Plymouth, The Escapologist will run from the 13–28 January in Glasgow, before appearing in Plymouth from the 2–18 February. The show will also be undertaking a full Scottish tour in Autumn 2006.
Tickets are available from the Tramway box office on 0845 330 3501.
Following the enormous success of the first Italian performances earlier this year, production partners il Rossetti, Teatro Stabile del Friuli-Venezia-Giulia have helped to tour their last show, A Different Language to Italy once again.
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The tour ran throughout November with performances covering much of northern Italy from Gorizia, Trieste, Milan and Florence, to San Vito, Pescia and Piombino. Since the play premiered at The Tron in February this year, it has embarked on a voyage covering over 50 performances to date in both the UK and Italy.
The tour enjoyed sell out performances in Trieste and Milan’s famous CRT Teatro dell’arte, as well as attracting a range of audiences, including a substantial number of students. It will be on the road again in Italy in Spring 2006. |
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