Like some backroom carnival ride / lo-fi sci-fi pleasure machine, Amusements is an intensely sensorial and breathlessly seductive one-woman headphone-theatre spectacular that asks what exactly we might want from our entertainment, and what it might want from us. With the audience plugged wirelessly into its beating heart, the performance grapples sleepily with the dizzying highs and terrifying boredoms of the early 21st century: the soporific hum of mass communication; the television’s warm embrace.
AMUSEMENTS is the first part of LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, a loosely connected trilogy of performances about pleasure and boredom in this the adolescent decade of the 21st Century.
NOMINATED: Total Theatre Award 2012
NOMINATED: Arches Brick Award 2012
★★★★★ Three Weeks
★★★★ Brodway Baby
‘Inescapably intimate, utterly unreal’
★★★★ Exeunt Magazine
‘Hauntingly gripping…an awe-inspiring, sexually-charged performance’
The Stage
Created by Sleepwalk Collective
ORIGINAL IDEA AND CREATION: Sleepwalk Collective
PERFORMANCE: iara Solano Arana and Sammy Metcalfe
TEXT: Sammy Metcalfe, with iara Solano Arana
ORIGINAL MUSIC AND LIGHTS: Sammy Metcalfe
STAGE AND COSTUME DESIGN: iara Solano Arana
PHOTOS: Alex Brenner y Alessia Bombaci
- Supported by Factoría de Fuegos, Be Festival Birmingham, Mac Birmingham, and Vitoria-Gasteiz’s Townhall.
- Support on tour: Instituto Etxepare.
