Mind Out
Being 'out of your mind' is taken literally in Mind Out, a celebration of the mindful and the mindless.
Separating mind and body, performer and character, Mind Out's performers are split in two. Each acts as the mind of another, giving simple instructions for action, formulating speech and expressing otherwise silent thoughts, while their own body responds to controls given by someone else. With constantly shifting relationships, minds and bodies become shared between two, three and even all of the performers, creating a narrative laced with black humour and allusions to love, masochism, alienation, self-control, empathy and madness, reflecting the company’s fascination with personal identity.
with Zena Birch, Tom Bowtell, Susannah Hart, Julian Maynard Smith, Helen Morse Palmer
Station House Opera creates both an intriguing space within which meaning is created by the audience and a series of very funny comic routines. This is postdramatic theatre meets Buster Keaton. Enjoy."
Andrew Haydon, Time Out
"Funny, spooky and slightly unsettling... A company that proves it can still be well ahead of the game."
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
“By then, hopefully, we have begun thinking for ourselves and realising how inspired, how politically and socially astute this SHO performance is.”
Mary Brennan, The Glasgow Herald
“Station House Opera has hit gold again. Mind Out is a stunning piece of theatre that examines being literally ‘out of your mind’ …. a show that manages to be both hilarious and thought-provoking.”
Clare Simpson, Fringe Review
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Selected performances
PACT Zollverein, Essen; Festival Made In Britain, La Comédie de Saint-Etienne, St Etienne; Théâtre 140, Brussels;, Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster; The Showroom; Chichester; Lakeside Theatre, Colchester; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff; The Phoenix, Exeter; Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry;
Battersea Arts Centre, London; New Territories, Tramway, GlasgowAn Artsadmin production, 2008
