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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.T02058669229Featuring specially commissioned scenes by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke WilliamsProducer 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. | |
| 27 May 14 to 14 Jun 14 | The Yard Theatre, Outer London :: V0485111183 listing details L0780270115 |
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