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New play explores
pressure in the modern world
Into Thin Air
Washington Arts Centre
Thursday
1st October 2015
Newcastle
based Precious Cargo are coming to Arts Centre Washington with their new show Into
Thin Air, exploring the increasing pressure on everyone to succeed at
everything. It looks at when ambition moves from a positive motivator to become
the weight of expectation and an inability to live in and enjoy the present, as
we are too fixated with what’s next. Using tight ensemble performances and
magical-realism, Precious Cargo presents a slick, intelligent exploration of
how we cope in an increasingly pressurised world.
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Photo: Natasha
Langstreth
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Jonluke McKie -
Artistic Director at Precious Cargo said: "Into Thin Air came
about after we found we were all having similar conversations with friends and
families about the impossibility of trying to juggle the different areas of our
lives. With social media providing a constant platform for comparison and
increasingly busy lives, we wanted to explore what would happen if this
pressure caused people to simply disappear when it got too much"
“This is a beautifully woven story…beautiful interludes and detours into a more poetic realm …combines concrete and more abstract emotions with empathy and plenty of humour.”
(Susanne
Kass, Prague Film and Theatre Centre)
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Photo: Natasha
Langstreth
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Into
Thin Air is co-created by Precious Cargo
(When She Went, The Last Drop) and North East writer Allison Davies (Weather to
Fly – 2014 Journal Culture Awards finalist). The show has been developed with
the support of ARC, Stockton, Arts Centre Washington, Live Theatre and Northern Stage. It has been
supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council
England.
Tickets:
Into
Thin Air is on at Arts Centre Washington on Thursday 1st October 2015 at 7.30pm.
Tickets
are priced £8.50 / £6 (conc) and can be purchased from www.artscentrewashington.co.uk
or by calling 0191 219 3455.
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