Rainpan 43 USA
All Wear Bowlers
Presented in association with barbicanbite07

Barbican, The Pit
Tue 16 to Sun 28 Jan (not 22)
7.45pm
All seats £12 (students half price on Wednesdays, subject to availability) Runs approx 75 mins without interval

Tickets 0845 120 7548
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'As slick and funny as anything you'll see. It is a technical tour de force, so accomplished that it takes your breath away.' The Guardian

In this absurdist vaudevillian comedy, two silent movie comics fall literally off screen to find themselves unexpectedly in front of a live audience. Amidst mounting mayhem, struggling to make sense of the situation and get back into the film, they become only more disoriented. With moments of pathos reminiscent of a Laurel and Hardy film and the desolate humour of a Beckett play, All Wear Bowlers is a deliriously oddball exploration of identity, memory, nostalgia and amnesia. In a surreal landscape at once funny and mysterious, the quick-fire action unfolds in a series of hilarious variety routines, stage magic and venomous ventriloquism. Rainpan 43 are actors Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford. They created and premiered All Wear Bowlers in Philadelphia in 2003, since when the show has enjoyed successful seasons in New York and Los Angeles, at the Edinburgh Fringe and has toured in Europe and Asia. London premiere

Post-show discussion Wed 17 Jan, chaired by Andrew Dawson
BSL interpreted performance: Tue 23 Jan

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