Audiences of up to 2,000 people per night find themselves immersed within an open-air collage of sound, light, pyrotechnics and performance. Commissioned by 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary, Furious Folly is one of 27 new commissions exploring how the Great War has impacted on the society we live in now.
Anderson, a specialist in multi-media and site specific performance who has created work for tens of thousands of people at major arts festivals across the world, leads a team of artists, who draw on the anti-war spirit of the early 20th Century Dadaist movement. Railing against the futility of war and the madness of the battlefield, Furious Folly challenges the inhumanity and senselessness of conflicts past and present.
With 2016 being the centenary of Cabaret Voltaire, the birthplace of Dadaism, Furious Folly is partly inspired by the artistic language of the Dadaists and eschews structure to place the audience amidst a powerful, anti-war performance with themes of dissent and desertion. Anderson comments, Furious Folly is inspired by the Dadaists, and the writers, poets, philosophers, radicals and ordinary people who rejected the propaganda and jingoism peddled by leaders, politicians, big business and the privileged elite of countries and empires as they squabbled for power with their usual contempt for the lives of ordinary people and the destruction wrought in the process.
This immersive experience will take place in Oxford, Birmingham and Stockton – all chosen for particular local resonances with World War I and the themes of the show. In Oxford, Magdalen College School’s School House was used as the city’s first hospital to receive the wounded from the first encounters of the War while School Field was used for drilling the School Cadet Corp. In Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield was the training location for the 14th, 15th and 16th city infantry battalions of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. While, in Stockton, Preston Hall Museum, in Preston Park, was once home to local industrial magnate Robert Ropner and now houses a vast collection of artefacts which tell the story of Stockton-On-Tees.
VenuePreston Park Museum and Grounds
AddressYarm Road, Stockton on Tees, Durham,
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