"A question, to leave hanging in the air... what does it mean to commit murder?"
opening line of Finale
For Finale Pacitti Company join forces with sensational Swiss cult electronica band Velma to bring you one from the heart: a series of highly visceral performances shown in intense site specific locations. Abstracting the 1867 Emile Zola text 'Therese Raquin' Finale dispenses with narrative structure and character, in order to prioritise the themes of the book - deception, lust, spite and domination. This is theatre full of sexual obsessions and jealous distractions played out against the hypnotic repetitions of Velmas minimalist soundwork. Pacitti Company revel in the dirt of Zola's text and, true to form, Finale is compelling and explicit, uncompromising and cruel.
"I simply applied to living bodies the analytical method
that surgeons apply to corpses"
Emile Zola on the process of writing 'Therese Raquin', 1867
Finale was originally toured as a performance within an exhibition within a theatre. The audience entered a theatre space to be met by a curated exhibition on the white walls of a cube standing in the centre of the space. Entering behind these walls the audience then got up close and personal with the live work. Over time this form has shifted, and Finale is now shown as the result of a site specific workshop residency. Pacitti Company work with local practitioners on issues around Manifestos and the Explicit Body to develop content, and then - also responding to the site - place the workshop participants outcomes in relation to the existing Finale materials. This radical approach to collaboration and the public reframing of an existing piece always produces startling results and makes Finale an ideal festival work.
"The most unusual and unsettling theatrical experience currently in London"
Lynn Gardner -The Guardian
Funded by The Arts Council of England National Touring Programme and London Arts Theatre Production Fund. Sponsored by Hoop
Performed at The Oval House, London; Colchester Arts Centre; The Arnolfini, Bristol; The Lyric Hammersmith, London; Theater Arsenic, Lausanne, Switzerland
Reworked site specifically with attached residency programmes at:
The Galleries of Justice - Nottingham, England in assosciation with Bonnington Gallery 2003; The Lab - Birmingham, England 2003 as part of Fierce! - SESC Copocabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as part of Panorama 2003 - The Toxteth Resevoir, Liverpool, England in association with the Bluecoat 2003
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