England
From: Friday, 8th May 2009
To: Tuesday, 16 June 2009
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Synopsis
Two guides in a gallery. Two lovers with a lifestyle to maintain. Two hearts beating 8,000 miles apart. Translations. Transactions. A transplantation. England is the story of a search for a new heart. It’s a story about a life saved and an illness overcome at any cost. It’s a tour through spaces and across borders: from an art gallery to a jam factory, from Edinburgh to Osaka, from a hospital bed to a hotel room. It’s a tour to the end of the world.
Our Review:
13 May 2009
Fittingly enough, in another chamber of the recently refurbished Whitechapel Gallery, Bloomberg happen to be hosting their annual awards. After all, without them, we wouldn’t be here. In fact, as Tim Crouch’s densely thoughtful text insists on reminding us, there are a lot of people to thank for our presence here. Not only those that have made the Whitechapel’s renovation possible, but a broad network of humanity on which our own continued existence depends.
With this reliance established, England becomes a meditation on value. It examines the value of existence itself and those with which we fill it; those values held by our culture and those of others; monetary value and something more intrinsic - beauty, perhaps, or love. Again, the trickle of financiers’ applause seeps through the walls.
Crouch’s text is a single narrative voice split between two performers, Crouch himself and Shunt’s Hannah Ringham. They ta...
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Tim Crouch (Author)
news from nowhere (Producer)
Whitechapel Gallery (Producer)
National Theatres (Producer)
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