FIB - NCP car park, Leicester
Posted: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:59
There's a lot of electrical wiring but no plumbing in evidence at FIB, an intriguing performance-art piece from Metro-Boulot-Dodo housed in the basement of an NCP car park in Leicester.
An audience of 14 is led into a brilliantly lit, specially constructed corridor, on either side of which stand seven cubicles; each cubicle contains a three-minute experience, themed around the subject of lying. When your time's up, you move on to the next available box.
It's like being in some reality TV show challenge, except that very little is demanded of you beyond a willingness to look performers straight in the eye. Not all the encounters are person-to-person - one cubicle, for instance, contains a disused toilet covered with graffiti.
Those that do feature other living souls are the best, though. Whether it's a young man encased like an art exhibit musing on the benign side of fibbing or a single white female spilling her heart out at a restaurant table, they remind you just how intimate and intense theatre can be.
Daily Telegraph - Dominic Cavendish















