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London 2040, society is crippled under the weight of a population addicted to novelty and impermanence. Nothing lasts when every dream or nightmare imagined can be crafted and created. To stem the loss of reason in a post-real world, time and access to the ever expanding human experience is restricted. New forms of experience are policed by the Ministry of Information, in a last ditch attempt to control a world that is eating its own meaning. Experience of that which is categorised as NOVELTY is monitored under the Human Emotional Experience Act of 2032, where total access to information is strictly limited within a monthly data plan and the most virulent forms of experience and knowledge are banned. ?The age of Information Prohibition has begun. Forced back into the real world, language devolves into hybrid forms, to cater for a generation who only understand meaning when communicated in hash tags and status updates. Yet there is one place where all you can eat reality still exists and every banned emotion, experience, dream and nightmare can still be made real: the Virulent Museum of Human Experience, housing the entire banned index of thoughts, emotions and desires. Now, on the eve of the opening ceremony of the 2040 London Olympics, Eliza, a certifiable Experience Junkie, who has spent a lifetime imprisoned by her out of control desires has come to the museum. There, she must convince Socrates, hoodie and outlaw philosopher, a living novelty born of the 2011 London riots, to help her release a secret hidden deep inside the museum. A machine which may save Eliza from her own mind and offer the human, a wayward animal, a method with which to regain the truth it has lost.

Cast/Performers

John Harrigan, Alfie Black, Andrew Futaishi, Cathy Conneff, Christopher Foran, Gina Abolins, Heidi Agerholm Balle, Henriikka Kemppi, Lucy Charles, Lucy McCabe, Maisie Greenwood, Nina Lacelle, Polly Misch, Rachael Blyth, Samantha O'Connor, Tom Slatter, Gereza Kamenicka, Yuna Shin

Creatives/Company

Author: John Harrigan
Company: FoolishPeople
Director: John Harrigan

Virulent Experience

Virulent Experience (Performance) production archive for QTIX code T2070801701. Details of all Virulent Experience archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S1090739252

Archive Listings

6 Aug 12
  to
31 Aug 12
Conway Hall
Inner London, Greater London
Performance Details => Venue archive

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