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Lumenis Theatre Company  in association with Giant Olive presents:

  

 

LES CHAISES     

Lumenis Theatre Company has invited 4 writers to give their take on how we use chairs in a literal or a surreal way, making up an hour of new and exciting writing.  

“Les Chaises” is based on the premise that ‘the chair’ has inspired many artists as an object and a symbol for a manifold of meanings. The aim of this project is to produce new, challenging work that causes an audience to leave their comfort zone and think again about the world around them.  It wants to achieve this by bringing together mixed audiences for culturally diverse work from an international production team.  

Pseudological Fantastica, a physical theatre piece by Sarah Turner, belongs to a series of nine works, The Sybils’. These attempt to isolate ‘transcendence’, that fleeting moment in time at which limitation is exceeded, and instinct becomes heroic impulse.  This piece tries to embody this moment into an appropriate form.

In Clearance, by Fiona Whitelaw, Jean is faced with getting rid of her dead father's chair.  This proves to be more difficult than first expected, so she hires in Alfie, an antiques expert. If Alfie persuades Jean to part with the chair, what else will be cleared out and what may replace it?

Foreplay by Sue Lenier presents the audience with a comedy of relationships. Alistair wants a baby. Janey’s not so sure. They go to a sex therapist for help. By the time they’re finished, the therapist needs help. This darkly comic romp exposes a disintegrating relationship through the psychiatrist’s chair.  

Magical Musical Chairs, by Mary Mazzilli, tells the story of two friends who are faced with the last magic trick they might ever play together.  The magician loves chairs, the assistant worries about them.  Will they manage to complete it before the time runs out?   This absurdist piece presents 'adults acting like children acting like adults' and deals with the issues of children’s abandonment and displacement.

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Performance Dates and Times:

Sunday 20th September - Evening 7.30pm

Monday 21st September - Evening 7.30pm

Saturday 26th September - Matinee 3.30pm

Sunday 27th September - Evening 7.30pm

Monday 28th September - Evening 7.30pm

Saturday 3rd October - Matinee 3.30pm

Sunday 4th October - Evening 7.30pm

Monday 5th October - Evening 7.30pm



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