Going Dark

Written by
Hattie Naylor
In collaboration with
Sound&Fury 
Commissioned by
Warwick Arts Centre
Developed by
Fuel
Dates
15 Jan 2010 - 3 Apr 2014
Artist/Company
Sound and Fury

Fuel presents Going Dark

Written by Hattie Naylor in collaboration with Sound&Fury 

How far can you see? A mile? A hundred miles? Or to the furthest shores of the universe to a faraway galaxy? 

When his own life takes an unexpected turn, Max discovers that understanding the universe requires a different kind of vision… 

Sound&Fury used their innovative theatre vocabulary of immersive surround sound design, total darkness, and imaginative lighting in Going Dark to reawaken our wonder at the cosmos and reveal how one man’s vision becomes illuminated by darkness. 

#GoingDark

Commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre. Developed as part of Fuel at the Roundhouse and the Jerwood residencies at Cove Park which are supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Funded by Arts Council England, the Wellcome Trust, the Institute of Physics and the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Supported by the Linbury Prize for stage design. 

 

" ***** A one-man show that casts us both far out into the heavens and deep into human head-space…Sound & Fury are going boldly where few companies have gone before. "

The Telegraph

"***** …manages to marry the best aspects of such dazzling text-based plays as Stoppard's Arcadia and Frayn's Copenhagen, which make profound use of science as metaphor, with state-of-the art deployment of theatre-as-atmosphere techniques."

The Independent

"**** In its union of text, light, sound and slowly developing photographic images, the show is a considerable technical feat."

The Guardian

"**** As so often with Sound & Fury, you leave the theatre’s eloquent darkness with a twinge of reluctance about re-entering the seeing world."

Financial Times

"The visionaries who are taking a leap in the dark."

The Independent

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Project History

15/01/2010 - 16/01/2010
Roundhouse
London
27/10/2010 - 29/10/2010
Warwick Arts Centre
Coventry
01/11/2010 - 02/11/2010
Rose Theatre, Edge Hill University
Lancashire
04/11/2010 - 05/11/2010
Northern Stage
Newcastle upon Tyne
08/11/2010 - 09/11/2010
ARC
Stockton
11/11/2010 - 12/11/2010
Traverse
Edinburgh
15/11/2010 - 19/11/2010
Bristol Old Vic
Bristol
23/11/2010 - 24/11/2010
Gulbenkian
Canterbury
08/02/2012 - 11/02/2012
Drum Theatre
Plymouth
13/02/2012 - 17/02/2012
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Aberystwyth
21/02/2012 - 22/02/2012
Wales Millennium Centre
Cardiff
24/02/2012 - 25/02/2012
Unity Theatre
Liverpool
28/02/2012 - 29/02/2012
Hull Truck Theatre
Hull
03/03/2012
Lakeside Theatre
Colchester
06/03/2012 - 24/03/2012
Young Vic
London
14/10/2012 - 16/10/2012
Canterbury Festival
Canterbury
04/12/2012 - 22/12/2012
Young Vic
London
18/04/2013 - 19/04/2013
Societaetstheater
Dresden
27/02/2014 - 01/03/2014
Exeter Northcott Theatre
Exeter
05/03/2014 - 09/03/2014
Science Museum
London
18/03/2014 - 19/03/2014
Malvern Theatres
Worcestershire
29/03/2014
MAC
Birmingham
02/04/2014 - 03/04/2014
The MAC
Belfast