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The Cleansing of Constance Brown

CAST:

Gerard Bell
Gareth Brierley
Jake Oldershaw
Jan Person
Graeme Rose
Bernadette Russell
Craig Stephens

Directed by: James Yarker
Music and sound: Nina West
Light-design: Paul Arvidson

Foto: Ed Dimsdale

Considered by The Independent on Sunday one of the most innovative companies in the UK, Stan’s Café places its productions on the boundary between theater and installation, structuring them in such a way as to force the audience to participate either through special emotional involvement or through direct, but unpredictable interaction with “the world behind the curtain”. The Cleansing of Constance Brown is an abridged version of the history of the world seen through the prism of things happening in a corridor – an original demonstration without words, but replete with suspense. The show was successfully performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2007 and comes to Bucharest with a… rice installation (Of All the People in All the World), the Edinburgh 2006 attraction.

www.stanscafe.co.uk

The Britons Stan's Cafe are an extremely unusual theatre company. While their work is most definitely theatre, it rarely takes place in theatre buildings. Born out of the strange alchemy of financial necessity and improvisational flair, the company has become specialists in doing the most surprising things in the most unusual places.

Stan's Cafe works range in scale from [i]It's Your Film, a three minute theatre performance enacted exclusively for one member of the audience at a time (for their first appearance outside the U.K. at the Festival Theaterformen 2000 in Hannover, we booked 600 performances) to the version of Of All The People In All The World created for Theater der Welt 2005 in Stuttgart, which featured over six billion grains of rice, one for every human being on the planet at the time, with a total weight of 104 tonnes.
The diversity of their output makes them hard to define and almost impossible to predict. However, at the heart of most of their works there is a simple idea, which is then pursued with an extreme boldness bordering on recklessness.[/i]
Extracted from programme notes for The Cleansing of Constance Brown.

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