Furious Folly - major outdoor event this summer

As one of our major Hippodrome CREATIVE projects this year, we are honoured to have been invited to participate in a specially commissioned outdoor production as part of  14-18 Now.

Furious Folly will take place in July produced by Corn Exchange Newbury and OCM in association with Birmingham Hippodrome, Oxford Playhouse, Oxford Festival of the Arts, and Stockton International Riverside Festival.

Furious Folly takes place in no-man’s land on the battle front between the two lines. Disorientated, the audience find themselves immersed within an open-air collage of sound, light, pyrotechnics and performance.

Mark Anderson, creator of multi-media and site specific performance (Power Plant lead artist), leads a team of artists who draw on the anti-war spirit of the early 20th century Dadaist movement. Railing against the futility of the Great War and the madness of the battlefield, Furious Folly challenges the inhumanity and senselessness of conflicts past and present.

“Anderson has spent his professional career creating audio visual alchemy that uses light, heat, vibrations, electricity, oscillating chemicals and paraphernalia to dazzle our eyes and startle our imaginations.” Richard Wilson

14-18 Now is a programme of extraordinary arts experiences connecting people with the First World War. The programme takes place from 2014 to 2018 and is timed to mark the centenary of the war, which raged across Europe, Asia and Africa from 1914 to 1918.

Furious Folly will be performed on 8 & 9 July at 10pm.   The location will be announced shortly.