Following phenomenal sell-out runs around the world, including London, New York and Hong Kong, Theatre Re returns to the UK with their explosive, joyous and highly acclaimed show The Nature of Forgetting.
As one of the UK’s leading visual theatre companies, Theatre Re blur the lines of traditional performance by combining original live music and striking physical theatre to create world-class non-verbal productions. The Nature of Forgetting delves sensitively into the fragility of life by exploring what is left when memory and recollection begin to fade. This deeply moving production was recently nominated for a 2023 Offie Award, and is embarking on its largest-scale tour to date.
Tom has just turned 55. As he dresses for his birthday party, tangled threads of disappearing moments spark him into life and old memories come flooding back. This ambitious project tells a tale of friendship, love and guilt with actors, mimes and musicians. Established in 2011, Theatre Re create, share and promote life-changing theatre that is both inventive and accessible through cross-arts and cross-sector collaboration. After an extraordinary world tour performing across 16 countries since 2017, the UK leg of this tour will see the company travel to Sheffield, Poole, Norwich, Aberystwyth, Cardiff and Chester.
Theatre Re collaborated closely throughout the devising process with Professor Kate Jeffrey (Neuroscience Professor, University College London) and the Alzheimer’s Society. The company will be offering a series of post-show talks at most performance venues, in association with local organisations. Led by specialist psychologists and medical researchers for Dementia and Alzheimer’s, as well as Admiral Nurses from Dementia UK, audiences will hear first-hand about the development process for the show and experience an insight into the cognitive map of memory. These post-show talks will also shine a light on stigmas concerning dementia.
Director Guillaume Pigé comments, The Nature of Forgetting is not about dementia. It is about the fragility of life and that eternal ‘something’ we all share that is left when memory is gone. If there is one takeaway from the past eight years of making, touring, refining and breathing new life into The Nature of Forgetting – it’s to remind myself to be present, in the moment, and realise life as I live it.
