Life in the Folds, 2006

'Brilliantly executed and very witty... an exhilarating piece of work.' The Scotsman

'Exquisite, ironic and sharply engaging theatre... a bold and intelligent delight.'  The Evening Standard

'An irresistible mixture... funny, absurd, exotic.' The Guardian

A startling fusion of music, contemporary percussive dance and the eerily comic prose poetry of Henri Michaux © Editions Gallimard, Paris.

Michaux was one of the most unusually inventive of twentieth century French writer-artists, and this unprecedented dramatisation of his work explores some of his obsessive themes: pain, endurance, fragility, revenge. Ephemeral characters are impaled on spears, roasted on spits, stuffed into sacks, ground into sausage meat... But in the end, resilience reigns. If pain is omnipresent, death itself is kept at a distance, and from within this distance springs an eventual serenity.

Performed by Sinéad Rushe and Camille Litalien
Originally created by Sinéad Rushe and Jenny Boot
Directed and adapted by Sinéad Rushe
Lighting by Andrew Taylor
Original lighting design by Colin Grenfell
Sound preproduction by Peter Rose
Programme and flyer design by Dermot Rushe
Produced by Kate Houlden

Performed for two weeks at BAC, London, in January 2002 and Edinburgh Festival in 2001.

Remounted in 2006 to tour to: Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath; Bristol Old Vic Studio; The Gate, Cardiff.

  Funded by Arts Council England.