A chain of events discretely alters a private world to devastating effect when two lives cross at a festival of music and song. Told against a backdrop of the here and now The Festival is a simple story of love and expectation, of family and companionship, of the mundane and the extraordinary.

Begun with Alice Bell and continued with Daniel Hit By A Train, The Catastrophe Trilogy takes a biographical approach to theatrical story telling. It asks simply; what are the key events in a life and how do we show them, on stage, in front of other people. Answering that question enacts a sort of madness, perhaps one close to that felt by Stendhal on his unrequited love for Mathilde Viscontini Dembowski. But as a madness it is not without value, as Diane Ackerman writes in A Natural History of Love, Stendhal himself didn’t at all regret ‘the mad catastrophe of his feelings'.

"The Festival is a triumph... and its blend of song, silliness and emotional acuity is theatrical magic." The Times

"A delightful show from a company that seems to have optimism, rather than blood, running thorugh its veins." The Gaurdian

"...at the heart of all our work is the importance of the act of storytelling, people experiencing and sharing something together, a celebration of the everyday, and what surrounds us." TheatreWorks (read the full interview here).

Lone Twin Theatre: Antoine Fraval, David Williams, Gary Winters, Gregg Whelan, Guy Dartnell, Molly Haslund, Nadia Cusimano, Nina Tecklenburg, Paul Dale-Vickers, Paul Gazzola, Rebecca Curtis.

Commissioners: barbicanbite10, London; Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels; The Point, Eastleigh; Uovo Performing Arts Festival, Milan; and the Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster. Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Also supported by Tthe Royal Exchange, Manchester; the Corn Exchange, Newbury and The Basement, Brighton.

www.lonetwin.com

The Festival will be BSL interpreted on Wednesday 12 May.

Lone Twin will be leading a workshop on May 13th, click here for more info.