Theatre

Grace tried to squeeze a city into a theatre — 12 performers on a big stage, exploring a moment of grace through a chaos of stolen ideas, wilful energy, and a handful of beautiful images. The most presentational work Quarantine had made at that point.

DirectionRichard Gregory

WriterSteve Finbow

DesignerSimon Banham

MovementLeo Kay

LightingMike Brookes

SoundDan Steele

Live BandThe Permissive Society

PerformersAlex Elliott, Charlotte Grant, Chanje Kunda, Nyah Kunda, Darren Pritchard, Kirûna Stamell, Maurice Walsh, Yusra Warsama

Photo: Simon Banham

“Quarantine consistently pull off such inexplicably transcendent moments, though the obvious danger of playing to no rules but their own means no one but themselves can expect to fully understand it. Yet the group’s work has a poetic integrity to which ordinary critical methods no longer apply. All in all, Grace is less of a play than a state.”