Real Magic [Cine-teatru la Reactor] 14+

Real Magic
A Forced Entertainment production

Sinopsis

Real Magic creates a world of absurd disconnection, struggle and comical repetition. To the sound of looped applause and canned laughter, three performers take part in an impossible illusion – part mind-reading feat, part cabaret act, part nightmare game show – in which they are thrown back again and again to moments of hope and defeat. Caught in a world of second- chances and second-guesses, variations and changes, distortions and transformations, Real Magic takes the audience on a hallucinatory journey, creating a compelling virtuoso performance about big systems, small traps and yearning for change.

Conceived and devised by the company
Director Tim Etchells
Devised with and performed by Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon and Claire Marshall
Created with input from Robin Arthur and Cathy Naden
Lighting Design Jim Harrison
Design Richard Lowdon
Production Management Jim Harrison
Sound Technicians Greg Akehurst, Doug Currie
Project Assistant Anna Krauss
Music Electronics & Sound Editing John Avery
Loops Tim Etchells
‘Grave’, from Telemann Fantasia Number 1 in B-Flat Major Aisha Orazbayeva

Co-produced by: PACT Zollverein Essen, HAU Hebbel Am Ufer Berlin, Künsterlhaus Moustonturm Frankfurt, Tanzquartier Wien Vienna, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex and the Spalding Gray Consortium – On the Boards Seattle, PS122 NYC, Walker Art Center Minneapolis and Warhol Museum Pittsburgh.

Forced Entertainment Creative Team Tim Etchells (Artistic Director), Robin Arthur, Richard Lowdon (Designer), Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden and Terry O’Connor.

Forced Entertainment Management Team Eileen Evans (Executive Director), Jim Harrison (Production Manager).

Social Media communications: Nicki Hobday

Forced Entertainment is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.

Performance in English
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Duration: 80 min
Age: 14+
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The screening will be preceded by a brief introduction of the company and followed by a discussion with the audience and Tim Etchells (joining online).

A cultural project cofinanced by The Administration of the National Cultural Fund.
The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The Administration of the National Cultural Fund is not responsible for the content of the project or the manner in which the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.