AND ON THE THOUSANDTH NIGHT

A line of eight performers, men and women, dressed as Kings and Queens — cheap red cloaks and cardboard crowns.

A story is told, made up live, dragged from memory. It is a long, mutating and endlessly self-canceling story. A story which somehow, in its many dips and turns, seems to include many, if not all, of the stories in the world... the performance lasts six hours, the public are free to come and go as they wish.

AND ON THE THOUSANDTH NIGHT remixes everything from film plots, to religious stories, to traditional tales, jokes, modern myths, through personal stories, scary stories, love story and sex stories to banal stories, extraordinary stories and children's stories. The Kings and Queens compete, interrupting, exaggerating, taking over each other's stories, incorporating and moving on.

The tales move between tiredness and hysteria, between absurd vulgarity and surpassing tenderness. At times some of the Kings and Queens take a break, sleeping on the floor at the back of the space whilst their colleagues continue. At ten at night, perhaps, there are only two kings left speaking, pushing on the tale as one by one the others come forwards to rejoin the line.
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