70 minute guided tour with slide show and video / Edinburgh 2005

Guided Tour is a promenade performance sited in an historic building. It's a tourist experience for the disenchanted, a quiet interrogation of the notion of the authentic and our thirst for the original. Guided Tour was premiered at McEwan Hall at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2005, in association with the Traverse Theatre as part of the British Council Showcase, and has since been presented at the Tretyakov Gallery www.tretyakovgallery.ru/english/ Moscow and in Bucharest in 2006.

There’s so much history around,
so many books,
TV programs,
museums,
heritage sites,
There’s no space left for the present.
Or was it the other way round,
It’s all present, without any past?

(Guided Tour, final chapter)

Press
Pick of the week The Guardian
‘divertingly smart’ Financial Times
‘It’s a tourist outing for deconstructionists’ The Scotsman
‘takes us down a fascinating road of cultural discovery’
Steve Cramer The List ****
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Guided Tour is produced by Fuel
For further details contact - louise@fueltheatre.com