Bottom half of a human face floating on a black background, with two huge speech bubbles above it, and 5 pairs of headphones coming out of it.

Fri 19 Mar 10 - Sun 28 Mar 10
6.30pm & 9.15pm (1hr length)

GuruGuru - a Rotozaza production

by Ant Hampton, with Joji Koyama and Isambard Khroustaliov

£10.00 Concs: £6.00

PLEASE NOTE THIS PERFORMANCE IS ONLY FOR 5 PEOPLE, AND IT CANNOT TAKE PLACE WITH ANY LESS THAN 5 PEOPLE. Therefore for most performances booking is only available to groups of 5. Single tickets are still aviablable Thursday 11th 6.30pm/9.15pm, Tuesday 16th 6:30pm, Friday 19th 6.30pm and Thursday 25th March 6.30pm.

GROUP BOOKINGS: £35 for 5 tickets

You have been told what to do every moment of the day, for years on end. The voice in your headphones has understood who you are and gives instructions which mirror what you'd be doing anyway. A life free of dither and uncertainty! In your job, this voice is a career-saver... but the day has come when you need to come 'off the headphones'. You need help.

Five participants enter a brightly lit room, there are five chairs positioned around a TV. A session begins, and as each audience member follows different instructions via headphones, they begin to understand 'who they are'. Proceedings are led by an on-screen, animated character - whose twin roles of marketing and spiritual Guru are confused by his reliance on untested and accident-prone technologies. The overproduced, digital sheen of our focus-group world cracks open into a colourful volcano of boiling absurdity. A hilarious chaos develops, exposing today's consumer-mad inability to distinguish between what we want, and what we need.

“Hugely entertaining… This smart, mysterious exercise in programmed thinking and collective chaos is strange but exhilarating.” The Times

“You may find yourself frantically looking for yourself again in the moments after the performance has finished.” The Guardian

“A fascinating hour.” The Herald

DATES: 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 11th, 12th, 15th, 16th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th March, 6.30pm & 9.15pm

www.rotozaza.co.uk