FALLING HEADS: Who Wins When the Story is Lost?

WORLD PREMIERE! A CHILLING WORK ON FASCISM, MIND CONTROL AND THE WAR FOR TRUTH.  The Thursday Group’s immersive play Falling Heads: Estranged twins, Tomasz and Steph find themselves on opposite sides of two warring tribes. One fights for the supremacy of mind over body, the other defends the sovereignty of the senses.… to the death. In a Brecht/Poor Theatre style, Falling Heads examines history mistold as a tool of the state. Does anyone really win when truth is the cost? "mesmerising!""intense!""masters of their craft!""to hear the singing in this space: stunning" Performance Dates:— 31/10 (+matinee), 1, 5, 6 (+matinee +subtitles), 7, 8— Education Q and A 31/10 + 6/11— Hearing impaired friendly performance 6/11 Synopsis: Falling Heads is a co-devised theatre performance arising from Akutagawa Ryunosuke's 1917 wartime story. The performance follows two tribes with common roots, the People of the Sunflowers who colonise the lands of the People of the Wild Boars. In a fabled Brecht/Poor Theatre style, the story centres on estranged twin siblings: Steph, a Sunflower regime sympathiser and her twin brother Tomasz, a poet dissident of the Wild Boars. In embodied scores, dialogue, sculptural battlefield reportage and folk acapella, the Sunflower authoritarian ideology of Cartesian 'pure thought' overcomes the Wild Boar sensory experience of the world. The Oracle foretells the split, the Sunflower Captain conducts conversion therapy, the shopkeeper runs resistance, the twins meet in death, the Sunflowers cover ancient graves—ultimately, the Reporter asks, who wins when the story is lost?