Contemporary Bristol performance duo Action Hero (‘Oh Europa’, ‘Watch Me Fall’) and live artist & playwright Deborah Pearson (‘The Future Show’, ‘Inside Bitch’) present ‘The Talent’ at the Wardrobe a surreal sci-fi visitation which probes into the roles of voice, human presence and capitalism in the 21st Century. ‘The Talent’ asks ‘what will be the legacy of the human voice in a non-human future?
Renowned for their award-winning work which investigates public and digital interaction,installation and sound, ‘The Talent’ marks Action Hero’s first stage production since 2017. In collaboration with Deborah Pearson (Founding Co-Director of UK artist collective Forest Fringe), and Sound Design by Yaseen Clarke (‘The Making of Pinocchio’), they explore the intimate and the expansive possibilities of live performance. The show visits the Wardrobe (21-25 March 2023) as part of a UK wide tour following its World Premiere at Lisbon’s Teatro Barrio Alto in 2022.
A woman in a sound booth is talking. She is talking to herself. She is talking to you. She is talking to everyone. She is gifted, professional, mercurial; it seems as if she can summon almost any kind of voice and create any kind of world. You would listen to her say anything.
Her voice is all around. Her voice is all that’s left. She conjures her own ghost in real time.
Where does the voice live? How will her voice live on, outside her body, if it can take on a life of its own?
Commissioned by Teatro Barrio Alto (PT) Cambridge Junction (UK) & South Street Arts/ University of Reading (UK). With support from PACT Zollverein (DE) and Bristol Old Vic Ferment (UK). Thanks to Queen Mary University, University of Bristol and The Yard. Action Hero are a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England.
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