Stan’s Café: The Cleansing of Constance Brown

Venue: City Centre

City Centre venue – tbc

Constance Brown has lived through different countries and ages, as ruler and servant, a legend and code word. Her cleansing has been religious, psychic and a medical imperative; it has been a domestic chore, a personal ablution, a fragment of a genocide.

The figure of Constance acts as a starting point for this new work from Stan’s Cafe. Action slips in and out of a 15 metre long, especially constructed corridor which you, the audience, view from one end. Evocative images and soundscapes haunt the space, conjuring visions of what is taking place behind the corridor doors. These timeless episodes pinpoint separate moments and worlds, exploring the dynamics of power. Expect a beautiful, charged piece of visual theatre full of ghostlike figures and intense filmic perspectives, where the walls aren’t stable and the floor shifts beneath your feet.

Stan’s Cafe, based in Birmingham, delights in pulling theatre into extraordinary shapes. Previous highly original performances include It’s Your Film (1999), the rice installation of All The People In All The World (2003 & 2005) and the lo-fi, sci-fi, docu-drama Home of the Wriggler (2006).

After show discussion hosted by Dorothy Wilson following the 6.45pm performance on 13 March.

‘It is an understatement to say The Cleansing of Constance Brown is a great performance’ Der Standard, Vienna

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