The diners enter.
The lights go out.
The spectators attempt to perceive the events that unfold.
A game with food.
A smashed glass.
Dinner has come, who else is here?

The plates start to crash. The air starts to grate. The walls start to melt. Get the fork. No that’s not right. It’s the knife. They want it. Not everything is gone. The food is turning sour. Who ate it? Stained lips. Accusations fly. Fingers are pointed.

An assault on the senses. An experiment into sight, sound, smell & touch through the normality of dining. The sounds of dining. The people of dining.

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Assault was a sound-based, site-specific performance where audiences were blindfolded, it unfolded through a series of pre-recorded sounds, live performance and sensory stimulation.

Assault, National Theatre Studios, November, 2014

Devised and performed by Thomas Bostock, Alistair Foylan, Phoebe Naughton, Holly Shuttleworth, Bryn Fitch, Ally Couch & Joe Mercier

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