Performance

Venue	The Yard Theatre
Town	Outer London
County	Greater London
From	27th May 2014
Opened	29th May 2014
To	14th June 2014
When	20:00
Prices	From £12.00. To £12.00.
The Yard Theatre (V0485111183)
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Date of change: 3 Jun 14 - T02058669229
Date of change: 6 May 14 - T02058669229

The Manual Oracle

Work:: The Manual Oracle (S0223636006)

This new play is inspired by Gracian's 'Oraculo manual', a seventeenth-century 'self-help-book' that advised ambitious courtiers in self-promotion, social skill and psychological cunning. Yet behind Gracian's worldly wisdom there lay a paranoid message: other people are only waiting to harm you. Unpicking the multiple layers of the original text, 'The Manual Oracle' investigates the ambiguities between self-consciousness, strategic thinking and paranoia, by following a cast of four actors through a kaleidoscope of contemporary scenarios inhabited by border-guards and bond-traders, spin-doctors and schizophrenics. Shifting between the deeply disconcerting and the absurdly funny, this new play will take you on a journey through a society obsessed with surveillance, self-representation and manipulation, a world in which you should always act as if you are being watched.

Author

Phoebe von Held

Production:: (T02058669229)

Featuring specially commissioned scenes by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams

Producer	Gwen Van Spijk
Director	Phoebe von Held
Music	Natasha Soobramanien
Music	Luke Williams
Sound	Jamie Hamilton
Design	Moi Tran
Lighting	Studio ZNA
Performer	Ruth D'Silva
Performer	Terence Frisch
Performer	Peter Sandys-Clarke
Performer	Rosie Thomson

Listing:: L0780270115

Production details

Featuring specially commissioned scenes by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams

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