Following successful national tours of That’s Amore and Happy Hour, Liverpool’s award-winning physical theatre company, Tmesis Theatre premieres new show, Beyond Belief.
Beyond Belief will open at the Unity Theatre on Friday 28th September, continuing through to Saturday 6th October, with tour dates at the Vanbrugh Theatre – Chester on October 16th and The Arts Centre EHU Ormskirk on October 18th. It will tour nationally in spring 2019.
Beyond Belief asks the questions, what would happen if you could live forever? If you could bring your loved one back to life and resurrect their digital soul.
The production will merge text, physicality, powerful design and original music to create a stunning, engaging, playful and emotive performance that will make us question the future of the world we are living in.
Tmesis one of the U.K.’s leading physical theatre companies who create, share and develop extraordinary physical theatre through touring, participation and an International festival, Physical Fest. They make playful and passionate theatre that explores what it is to be human, they make work that is bold, exciting and creates a lasting impression.
Director, Elinor Randle said, “Beyond Belief began with a fascination about how we now live and die online, how our lives can be measured by status updates, collected data, and how we are being encouraged to think about our digital legacies. Once I started researching a whole new world that was both terrifying and fascinating opened up, age old questions about life and death suddenly had new meaning in the digital age, can we and do we really want to live forever? I’m really excited to be working with such a talented cast and creative team on this new show and believe it will be really different and exciting for audiences.
Tmesis are excited to be working for the first time with The Kazimier (creators of multidisciplinary multimedia work/Invisible Wind Factory) to integrate digital elements to the set and localised lighting effects, and recent 1st class honours LIPA graduate Stephanie O’ Hara designing our own unique dystopian world.
They will continue working with award winning writer Chris Fittock and will work for the first time with dramaturg, Lindsay Rodden who has worked in Ireland and the U.K. on many plays and productions, especially for Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, where she worked for eight years. Recent work includes Bright Phoenix and Hope Place (Everyman), Scrappers and Held (Playhouse Studio), Tiergarten (Metal) and Narvik (Box of Tricks).
Tickets for Beyond Belief at The Unity Theatre are on sale now and can be purchased from the Unity Theatre Box office and are priced from £10 to £14.50.