spill: pacitti company & guests - grand finale
21 - 22 April 2007

'A question, to leave hanging in the air... what does it mean to commit murder?'


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

For Spill, Pacitti Company will remake their award winning work Finale with visiting artists from the festival programme who have performed previously in the piece around the world.

'The most unusual and unsettling theatrical experience currently in London'

Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

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