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Still Life
FLESH

Nola-Rae
Nola Rae
WORKSHOP
25 - 28 Jan

Barbican Theatre

Wed 25 - Sat 28 Jan
7.45pm

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Runs:
75 mins/no interval
Age Guidance: 14+ (Contains issues dealing with end of life)
£16 - £30 + booking fees.
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BSL interpreted performance:
Thu 26 Jan
After-show discussion:
Thu 26 Jan (BSL interpreted)
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"Comedy that can deal with serious business. Brilliant”

Broadway World

Conceived and directed by Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola, Still Life's Flesh makes playful, disruptive drama about our need for affection and recognition.

A hit at the 2022 Avignon Festival, Brussels-based Still Life’s wordless dark burlesque in four short acts makes us lose all sense of proportion as we try to stifle appalled but helpless laughter.

From the difficulty of a hospital visit under Covid to a sophisticated, celebration party for two, from an embarrassing Titanic movie VR experience to a bizarre, post-funeral family gathering in a pub, FLESH is a modern fable that forces us to think about who we are and how much we need others.

UK début by rising stars of Belgium’s acclaimed contemporary theatre scene.
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Compagnie Still Life

still-life.be (Belgium)

With Muriel Legrand, Sophie Linsmaux, Aurelio Mergola & Jonas Wertz
Conception and direction: Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola
Scenario: Sophie Linsmaux, Aurelio Mergola, Thomas van Zuylen
Spatial installation: Sophie Leso
Set design Aurélie Deloche assisted by Rudi Bovy, Sophie Hazebrouck
Accessories: Noémie Vanheste
Costumes: Camille Collin
Lights: Guillaume Toussaint Fromentin
Sound: Eric Ronsse
Voice-over: Stéphane Pirard
Masks and puppets: Joachim Jannin
Set design trainee: Farouk Abdoulaye
Seamstress: Cinzia Derom
Technical direction: Nicolas Olivier
General assistant: Sophie Jallet
Development and diffusion: Claire Alex, Stéphanie Barboteau
Stage management: Rudi Bovy & Charlotte Persoons
Production
Production: Compagnie Still Life
Executive production: Théâtre Les Tanneurs (Brussels)
Co-production: Centre culturel de Huy (Belgium); Kinneksbond Centre culturel Mamer (Luxembourg); La Coop asbl & Shelter Prod (Brussels)
With the support of the Ministry of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation Theatre Department, Théâtre national Wallonie-Bruxelles, taxshelter.be, ING tax-shelter of the Belgian federal government, Wallonia Brussels Cultural Centre

With the help of the Centre des Arts scéniques (Mons), International development and diffusion: Aurora Nova - Wolfgang Hoffmann, Festival de Liège, du 140 (Brussels)