Theatre Re announces UK tour of The Nature of Forgetting

Theatre Re has announced a return to the UK with a new tour of 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 visual theatre to create world class, deeply moving non-verbal productions.

Following phenomenal sell-out runs in London, New York, Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Seoul, Sao Paulo and Lima, Theatre Re returns to the UK with their explosive, joyous and highly acclaimed show The Nature of Forgetting.

The Nature of Forgetting delves sensitively into the fragility of life by exploring what is left when memory and recollection begin to fade.

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.

The tour will visit Shoreditch Town Hall, London (18 – 22 January); The Lowry, Salford (30 – 31 January); Edge Hill University Theatre, Ormskirk (2 – 3 February) and Northern Stage, Newcastle (17 – 18 February).

Across the tour, the company will be offering a series of post-show talks at each performance venue in association with local organisations. Led by specialist psychologists and medical researchers for Dementia and Alzheimers, as well as Admiral Nurses from Dementia UK, audiences will hear first hand the development process for the show and experience an insight into the cognitive map of memory.

Director Guillaume Pigé said: “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 seven 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.”

For more information and tickets, visit theatrere.co.uk