Tour Dates Announced for Dante Or Die And Chris Goode's USER NOT FOUND

Dante or Die has joined forces with writer Chris Goode to examine what happens to our digital identities after we die in User Not Found.

Directed by Daphna Attias and performed by Terry O'Donovan, User Not Found will be performed in cafés around the UK and will open as part of the Traverse season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before embarking on a UK tour.

The production will preview at Ipswich, London, Derby before travelling to the Edinburgh Festival and will then embark on a ten-date tour in Autumn to Harlow, Reading, Brighton, Lincoln, Bath, Cambridge, Mansfield, Leicester, Manchester and Portsmouth.

Terry and Luka were together for nine years until Luka left Terry. Then Luka died leaving Terry as his online legacy executor.

Through smartphones and headphones the audience becomes a fly-on-the-wall to one man faced with keeping or deleting. In a rapidly changing digital age, a story of contemporary grief unfolds through this intimate, funny performance that gently interrogates our need for connection and the fate of our digital afterlives.

Chris Goode is recognised as one of Britain's most innovative and ground-breaking theatre makers. Both Chris's and Dante or Die's acclaimed work in devised and site-specific theatre is constantly informed by the primacy of liveness, questioning the terms and conditions of the dramatic form itself for both performer and audience.

Created by Dante or Die's Joint Artistic Directors Daphna Attias and Terry O'Donovan, User Not Found follows the company's previous critically acclaimed work, including Handle With Care in collaboration with Chloe Moss, I Do staged in hotels nationwide, and La Fille à la Mode at the Theatre Royal Haymarket & National Theatre. Their production touring leisure centres, Take On Me, has recently been awarded a Strategic Touring grant from Arts Council England and will be revived across the country later this year.

Daphna Attias regularly creates nationwide tours with her celebrated dance-theatre company Peut-Être Theatre; and On The Wire, one of Terry O'Donovan's last site-specific productions as Director, was nominated for Best Production in The Irish Times Theatre Awards 2015.

Dante or Die are collaborating with digital agency Marmelo Digital to build a bespoke app that is central to the performance. Creative technologists Luke Alexander, Abhinav Bajpai and Abigail Coe have been building the app over the past 18 months. Marmelo have previously worked with the RSC, Wayne McGregor Dance and The Old Vic.

User Not Found is the recipient of In Good Company's mid-career artist commission and was developed with the support of ArtsDepot's Creative Residencies, Southbank Centre, University of Reading, Roundhouse London & Stone Nest.

The production is funded by the International Music & Art Foundation, AHRC, Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Fund & Arts Council England.

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