Dread Falls Theatre Brings Father Dagon to Bristol!

Dread Falls Theatre has announced a United Kingdom based tour in 2015 of their latest immersive performance piece, Father Dagon, with the first run of the tour taking place on the 20th and 21st of February at The Basment, which is part of The Island, Bridewell Street, Bristol, BS1 2LE. The show leads a current trend in experiential theatre and places audience members in a stream of intertwining stories told through the company?s combination of physical theatre, spoken word, and bespoke sound design that includes live music. Father Dagon is influenced directly by the works of American horror author H. P. Lovecraft, and is written by company founder and show director Victoria Snaith.

Lovecraft, often cited as the father of modern horror literature, based his writings on the adage that, ?the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.? Snaith states this sense of ?Lovecraftian? fear is, ?...the main inspiration when transferring his work from page to stage. By creating a performance where the audience are free to roam, [Dread Falls Theatre has] taken away the comfortable space between audience and performer, therefore creating a feeling of unknowing and fear.? The company hopes to intensify this emotion by using physical storytelling instead of aural, to create an unknown language, ?much like that of Lovecraft?s creatures,? says Snaith.

Live, improvised music will also assist in constructing the astmosphere, presenting sounds that will accent the actor?s movements, specifically music performed on unusal and homemade instruments, the timbres of which will add to the unfamiliarity of the surroundings for the audience. The primary live musician will be vertern improviser and experimental musical instrument maker raxil4.

Dread Falls Theatre looks to take the work to several cities within the UK, for performances in March, April, and May; projecting Manchester and Birmingham to be the next cities on the tour. The comapny hopes to bring a greater awareness of this iconic author to audiences throughout the UK via their performance whilst presenting their critically acclaimed piece. More information about the show and Dread Falls Theatre can be found on their home page, http://www.dreadfallstheatre.com , and tickets are on sale now via Skiddle at https://www.skiddle.com/groups/dreadfallstheatre .

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