0.0008

Synopsis

'How many times a day are you remembered, do you think? What do people recall about you? Are they right? Does it matter? What if no-one has remembered you today or yesterday, what if we have all been forgotten by the end of tomorrow? Or next year, or fifty years or a thousand years? Does it matter?' When the universe is a million million million million million miles edge-to-edge - or would be if it had edges - how come our own thoughts and feelings matter so much? How can life break our hearts? And how can the best moments last forever?

Our Review:

13 July 2009

All writers try and generate a response in their audience but some are more ambitious than others. 0.0008 is a new piece of performance art in which writer/performer Sonia Hughes asks her audience to consider their status in an expanding universe.

The audience is directly involved in the performance. Seated under lightbulbs representing the stars and listening to recorded anecdotes from members of the Manchester Astronomy Society. Director Sarah Frankcom allows the stage to spill into the audience so that Hughes can walk through and around us and engage us in one-on-one discussions. The latter technique is not always successful. Hughes chats with a friend whose answers to questions on topics such as the best or worse thing she has done may or may not be illuminating but it is hard to judge, as the replies are often inaudible.

Frankcom makes some daring choices in the use of facilities. Opening the large windows to use the natural sum...

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