Parlour Games
1945: An unknown man returns to his childhood home. 1927: Four children play a delightfully dark, frightfully funny game.
Edward, Constance, Oliver and Theo revel in a fantasy of gothic proportions. In their ever-shifting world of joyful cruelty the only sure things are the rules of the game. But the violence of a half-forgotten war lurks beyond the torchlight, and the surrounding shadows threaten to unleash the darkness within...
Born of classic Gothic novels and visually inspired by early silent films, 'Parlour Games' blends acrobatics, shadow-play and an inventive visual style. This is a funny, playful and disturbing work of physical theatre from international Lecoq-trained company TOOTH+NAIL.
Winner of the Inspiration Award, Prague Fringe 2016 "Electrifying! A joy from beginning to end." Fringe Review: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED SHOW "Wonderful. This is an hour of magic." Fringey Bits
Presented by: Tooth+Nail Theatre Company in Association with Holden Street Theatres
Tooth+Nail was founded in 2014 at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris.
An international company, we tell original, devised stories that combine humour and darkness in a visually rich and highly physical style. Story and character are at the heart of our work. The question that drives us is: what can we do in a theatre that we can't do anywhere else?
This event contains strobe and flashing lights.