Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring.

“The person performing in front of you is dying in front of your eyes, as I am dying now.  That’s literally true, invisibly so.  But if you are sufficiently patient, you will see it…”

– Herbert Blau 

Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring is an extraordinary quartet about living, dying and our relationship with time.

Comprising three live performances and a film, Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. is a 7-hour marathon event where audience and performers merge in a piece of mass portraiture that’s fragile, frequently funny, often moving, always human.  

• Summer. looks at this very moment – dozens of people on stage, responding to questions and instructions they’ve never seen before.  Summer. premiered to sell-out audiences in a Salford warehouse in June 2014. In 2016, Summer. featured 45 performers ranging in age from 7 months to their early eighties, most of whom had never been on stage before. 

• Autumn. is an interval between Summer. and Winter. Like a theatre interval – but almost 2 hours long and full of conversation, expert voices, explorations of the past and predictions for the future.  It invites its audience to reflect on our place in history – and, of course, offers them refreshment.

• A delicate portrait of an individual at the end of a life, Winter. is a film made by Daniel Saul and Rachel Davies.

• Spring. features a group of women at various stages of pregnancy. It closes the quartet with a piece asking questions about hope and the future and celebrates the potential of new life.  How do we want the world to be?

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Past performances:

Norfolk and Norwich Festival | 13 & 14 May 2017 | The Space, Norwich, UK  | 

Old Granada Studios, Manchester | 22 – 26 March, 2 & 3 April 2016