And Hell Followed With Them (2011)
She sees the end of the world - all fire and smoke and blood rain.
You know, like they say... the wailing and the gnashing of teeth. (Lynch)
Taking inspiration from Tobe Hooper, Chuck Palahniuk and David Lynch, AND HELL FOLLOWED WITH THEM is a haunting piece of theatre, exploring formal structures of tension and suspense in the horror movie genre.
Drunken Chorus descend into a dark and disturbing world of fear, violence and torture. Packed with rhythms, repetitions and motifs, the performance merges nightmarish visions with grotesque movement and gallows humour. It is a performance that explores our perceptions of horror; a performance full of darkness and silence; a performance that lies always in the shadow of some horrific act.
Devised and Performed by:
Chris Williams
Nicki Hobday
David McBride
Sound Design:
Steve Kilpatrick
Lighting Design:
David McBride
Tour:
The Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster
The Wickham Theatre, Bristol
Leeds Met Studio Theatre @ Northern Ballet
Greenroom, Manchester
Junction, Goole
Warwick Arts Centre (preview)
Supported by:
Arts Council England
Live at LICA (Lancaster)
LANWest (Live Art North West)
Testing Grounds
China Plate / Pilot
Junction (Goole)
Proto-Type Theater / Sunday Lunch Club
Reviews:
And Hell Followed With Them is a stunning piece of work that is framed around atomised sequences of Lynchyian style horror, made all the more effective for the lack of overt narrative. Characters actions are repeated, complicating notions of who done what, but this slippage was one of the fascination aspects of the work for me. And Hell Followed With Them is a work about soul. But it’s a difficult and disturbing reflection of the recesses of the soul we least like to look at, and perhaps, the parts of ourselves that we most fear.
- Vee Uye
The heightened cinematic sensibility gives a warped kind of beauty to the enigmatic characters, and the churning, crackly soundtrack had the power to wrench me from my seat on several occasions... visceral, enigmatic and atmospheric.
- Cutteruption, Online Review Site
Shadowy, noir-ish, tenebrous.
- Jildy Sauce, Online Review Site
Brave and brilliant stuff. I can see it might divide audiences, but let it! We need work that takes risks and this does so brilliantly.
- Dick Bonham
