Fuel Presents Sound&Fury’s GOING DARK UK Tour

Fuel presents Sound&Fury's GOING DARK, written by Hattie Naylor in collaboration with Sound&Fury.

· A new show from the creators of the hugely successful Kursk and produced by Fuel
· Sound&Fury, one of the most innovative theatre companies working in British theatre today, tour their new production, Going Dark, throughout the UK.
· These performances mark the culmination of research into the effects of the onset of adult blindness on the brain and on visual perception funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Going Dark is a new show devised by Sound&Fury and written in collaboration with award-winning playwright Hattie Naylor, who has had over thirty plays broadcast on BBC Radio. Using the company's theatre vocabulary of immersive surround sound design, moments of total darkness and imaginative lighting and projections, Going Dark tells the story of Max - an astronomer who works in his local planetarium. When he is diagnosed with an eye condition that is causing him to lose his sight, he must re-evaluate his relationship to the world around him.

Using the latest software in projection, lighting and sound technology, Sound&Fury, with Linbury Prize winning designer, Aleš Valášek; lighting designer Guy Hoare and projection designer Dick Straker, create a truly immersive environment for audiences, in which mesmerising sound and visuals guide audiences on Max's journey as his ‘view' of the world begins to take on a new meaning.

It is performed by John Mackay whose recent theatre credits with the RSC include: Little Eagles, Antony & Cleopatra, King Lear, The Grain Store, Julius Caesar, Winter's Tale, Henry V, Henry VI part one and two.

Going Dark explores parallel separations - one of a man from his world and another of a modern society from an appreciation of the cosmos and the world around them. How do we actually perceive the world? How might losing our sight allow us to understand the world better?

Commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre.
Developed as part of Fuel at the Roundhouse and the Jerwood residencies at Cove Park which are supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Funded by Arts Council England, the Wellcome Trust, the Institute of Physics and the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Supported by the Linbury Prize for stage design.

Fuel presents Sound&Fury's GOING DARK written by Hattie Naylor in collaboration with Sound&Fury

Performed by John Mackay
Design: Aleš Valášek
Lighting design: Guy Hoare
Projection design: Dick Straker
Co-creator: Tom Espiner
Sound&Fury: Mark Espiner, Dan Jones and Tom Espiner

UK Tour 27 October 2011 - 24 March 2012
Press night in London: 9 March 2012

Tour dates:

2011

Warwick Arts Centre
7.45pm | 27 - 29 October
University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL
www.warwickartscentre.co.uk | 024 7652 4524

Rose Theatre, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk
7.30pm | 1 & 2 November
Edge Hill University, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 4QP

www.edgehill.ac.uk/rosetheatre | 01695 584 480

Northern Stage, Newcastle
8pm | 4 & 5 November
Barras Bridge, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RH
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www.northernstage.co.uk | 0191 230 5151

ARC, Stockton on Tees
7.30pm | 8 & 9 November
Dovecot Street, Stockton on Tees, TS18 1LL

www.arconline.co.uk | 01642 525 199

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
7.30pm | 11 & 12 November
10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2ED
www.traverse.co.uk | 0131 228 1404

Bristol Old Vic
7.30pm | 15 - 19 November
Bristol Old Vic, 36 King Street, BS1 4DZ

www.bristololdvic.org.uk | 0117 987 7877

Gulbenkian, Canterbuy
7.45pm | 23 & 24 November
The Gulbenkian | University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NB

www.kent.ac.uk/gulbenkian | 01227 769 075

2012

Plymouth Drum
8 - 11 February
Royal Parade, Plymouth PL1 2TR
www.theatreroyal.com | 01752 230 440

Aberystwyth Arts Centre
13 - 17 February
Aberystwyth University, Penglais Campus, Ceredigion SY23 3DE
www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk | 01970 62 32 32

Wales Millennium Centre
21 & 22 February
Bute Place, Cardiff Bay, CF10 5AL
www.wmc.org.uk | 029 2063 6464

Unity Theatre
24 & 25 February
1 Hope Place, Liverpool L1 9BG
www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk | 0844 873 2888

Hull Truck
28 & 29 February
50 Ferensway, Hull HU2 8LB
www.hulltruck.co.uk | 01482 323 638

Lakeside Theatre
3 March
University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD
www.lakesidearts.org.uk | 0115 846 7777

Young Vic
6 - 24 March
66 The Cut, London SE1 8LZ
www.youngvic.org | 020 7922 2922