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Gemma will be going to see 'The Quiet Volume' by Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells in April

The Quiet Volume is a whispered, self-generated performance for two at a time, exploiting the particular tension common to any library worldwide; a combination of silence and concentration within which different people’s experiences of reading unfold. Two readers sit side-by-side. Taking cues from words both written and whispered they find themselves burrowing an unlikely path through a pile of books. The piece exposes the strange magic at the heart of the reading experience, allowing aspects of it we think of as deeply internal to lean out into the surrounding space, and to leak from one reader’s sphere into another’s.

Video of 'The Quiet Volume'

Go See Mogadishu at the Lyric Hammersmith
3 March - 2 April

Watch the trailer

Synopsis

'I’m going to give you one more chance to tell the truth. So think very carefully about what you say...'

When white secondary school teacher Amanda is pushed to the ground by black student Jason, she’s reluctant to report him as she knows exclusion could condemn him to a future as troubled as his past.

But Jason can protect himself and with a story of his own he drags Amanda into a vortex of lies in which victim becomes perpetrator and where the truth is somewhere between public and private, black and white.

Vivienne Franzmann's bold new play recently won the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition and The George Devine Award 2010.

IN CONVERSATION - 21 MAR

Go See 'The Red Shoes by Kneehigh' at BAC

Let's Go See 'The Red Shoes' at BAC 

March 2 - April 9 2011

See images of 'The Red Shoes'

Go See 'The Blue Dragon' by Robert Lepage and Ex Machina at the Barbican

Let's go see 'The Blue Dragon'

Robert Lepage and Ex Machina at the Barbican 17 - 26 February 

Robert Lepage will be in conversation with Richard Eyre after the show on 21 February