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Posted 20/03/06
FIB
"I admit to having felt apprehensive and even a bit cynical in advance of seeing FIB, a theatrical experience about telling lies. It takes place in a dark and cavernous car park basement and involves walking alone into 14 tall white boxes, the size of an average loo.
It is a highly charged and wholly intimate experience that remains burned on the mind. In intense light to music and disembodied instructions, each of the 14 audience members has a collective 28 seconds to choose a box and enter it on cue, with no idea what or who they will find inside. They spend exactly three minutes inside each one, following the instructions they find there, and then exit and choose another box in the same way.
This is a performance installation, employing a whole mix of contemporary art forms to explore the whole question of why we lie. The cumulative effect of the barrages of words, images, effects and live performance - quirky, gentle, shocking, deeply thought-provoking - goes beyond exploring lies to touching on the big questions of life and death.
Since the whole point is to be unprepared for each encounter, I wouldn’t want to give anything away. Exposure to the devastating effects of telling even a white lie can be disconcerting, even uncomfortable. Sometimes you catch your breath, smile or exclaim out loud on entering a box. You wonder what your own body language is saying. This is cutting edge stuff, brilliantly conceived and brilliantly realised."
The Stage
I Think that means they liked it.....
Supported by Arts Council England