17 – 19 May Read our review on 18 May
Not here but in another place.
In another place the country is being torn apart.
Not in this place, remember, but in that other place the leader has lost control, people are being killed, someone is blinded.
But not here, you understand, not in this theatre here. Not this one.
Here, everything’s just fine. Everything’s hilarious.
The Fool leaves King Lear before the blinding. Before the killing starts. Before the ice-creams in the interval.
In this new solo work, Tim Crouch draws on ideas of virtual reality to send the Fool back to the future of the play that he left. Back to a world without moral leadership, or integrity; a world where wealth covers vice; where the poor are dehumanised; where the jokes fall flat; where live art has become the privilege of the few.
Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel is a daringly unaccommodated piece of theatre that switches between scathingly funny stand-up and an audacious act of collective imagining. It is an adult take on the atomised world we live in now. King Lear meets stand-up meets the metaverse.
Cast & Creative Team
Written and Performed by Tim Crouch
Co-directed by Karl James and Andy Smith
Sound design & composition by Pippa Murphy
Lighting Design by Laura Hopkins
ABOUT TIM CROUCH
Tim Crouch is an Obie-award winning writer and theatre-maker. His plays include ‘My Arm’, ‘An Oak Tree’, ‘ENGLAND (a play for galleries)’, ‘The Author’, ‘I, Malvolio’, ‘Adler & Gibb’, ‘Beginners’, ‘Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation’ and (with Andy Smith) ‘what happens to the hope at the end of the evening’. Directing credits include ‘House Mother Normal’ (New Perspectives and Brighton Festival), ‘I, Cinna (the poet)’, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, and ‘King Lear’ (RSC), ‘PEAT’, (Ark, Dublin) ‘Jeramee’, ‘Hartleby and Oooglemore’ and ‘Beginners’ (Unicorn Theatre) and ‘The Complete Deaths’ (Spymonkey). Tim created and co-wrote ‘Don’t Forget the Driver’, a six-part series for BBC2 which won Best TV Comedy at the Venice TV awards, 2019. Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel won a Fringe First award for its 2022 Edinburgh run.
- RUNNING TIME 75 mins (no interval)
- AGE RECOMMENDATION 14+
7:30pm & 2pm (Saturday matinee only)
Box Office on 0117 902 0344 / tickets@tobaccofactorytheatres.com.
Photo credit: Stuart Armitt
