LEAN UPSTREAM continues with these two work-in-progress showings of a brand new project, developed especially for CPT's fifteenth birthday celebrations, and made by Chris Goode with the collaboration of performer Jonny Liron.
Both a reflective commentary on theatrical performance, and a theatre piece in its own right, The Forest and the Field leads its audience through an array of ways of thinking about the theatrical experience, drawing particularly on Shakespeare but finding room for O.J Simpson too… In an intriguing and revelatory journey through the meaning of stage performance in the 21st century, Chris Goode traces a seductively radical through-line which joins theatre’s past to the promise of its future.
Though it's aimed principally at a non-specialist audience, and suitable for everyone, The Forest and the Field may perhaps be of particular interest to makers and critics with a close interest in the leading edge of contemporary theatre praxis. The piece is an adaptation of an earlier essay; a book of the same name, expanding these ideas even further, is forthcoming in spring 2010.
+ Free post-show event (Monday 16th only): A discussion with Chris Goode around the issues raised by the work. The conversation will be led by Jen Mitas (Department of Drama, Queen Mary, University of London).
Monday 16th & Tuesday 17th November, 8pm £10 (£8 concs.)
Camden People's Theatre
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The Forest and the Field at the CPT web site [not online yet]
