Sound and Fury's Kursk

A Young Vic and Fuel co-production

12 - 20 March 2010 8pm (2pm Thurs & Sats,

6.30pm & 9pm on 19 March) 

£15/£12

Kursk receives 5 star reviews at Bristol Old Vic! Click here to read the 9/10 Bristol Evening Post review.

The cast of five are all exemplary... A potent, atmospheric and, um, immersive evening. Venue Magazine *****

In collaboration with Bryony Lavery

Commissioned by the Junction Cambridge

EXCLUSIVE POST SHOW DISCUSSION with the cast of KURSK: A post show discussion will take place after the 6.30pm performance on Fri 19th.  This event to free to all who are interested in how a show like Kursk is brought to life.

August 2000. A British hunter-killer submarine is on patrol in the Arctic.

The crew drill, sleep, eat, long for word from home, and silently shadow their target.

Their lives are at once extraordinary and mundane – until a tragic event occurs that makes them question everything they are doing. As the tension mounts, the pressure they live under starts to take its toll.

Inspired by the Russian submarine disaster of August 2000, acclaimed theatre company Sound & Fury (The Watery Part of the World and Ether Frolics) join Bryony Lavery (Stockholm) to invoke the life of submariners, fathoms below the icy seas on the fraying front line of the Cold War.

PLEASE NOTE:  

Kursk is a promenade production. This means you are free to walk around within the space and that there are no conventional seats as in our other spaces. There are benches which you are welcome to lean on and, should you be unable to stand for the duration of the show, a chair can be provided.

For your safety, bags cannot be taken into the studio. We want your visit to be as enjoyable as possible so if you need a chair or have any access requirements please contact our sales team on 0117 987 7877 who will be happy to help you.

Sound&Fury is a collaborative theatre company directed by Mark Espiner, Tom Espiner and Dan Jones. Their artistic interest is in developing the physical and sonic elements of theatre offering the audience new ways of experiencing performance and stories in an immersive environment and by heightening the aural sense. Previous work includes The Watery Part of the World – where the audience were plunged into total darkness where they witnessed the thrill of a 19th century whale hunt – and Ether Frolics, which took the audience on a theatrical anaesthetic trip.

Kursk was first performed at the Young Vic in London in June 2009 and was subsequently selected to be part of the British Council Showcase at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Fuel is a producing organisation working in partnership with some of the most exciting theatre artists in the UK to develop, create and present new work for all ages.

GLASSBOAT PRE THEATRE PACKAGE
'Two people, Two courses each, a bottle of house wine and coffee for only £25'
*Available from Mon - Sat for the whole of March between 5.30 and 7.30pm.
** Diners must vacate their tables after two hours for the second sitting.

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