Make-believe

What do you believe in?

Quarantine return with their latest adventure at the edges of theatre and reality, Make-believe. With extraordinary performers including a 2 year-old boy and his parents, Make-believe asks some tricky questions about birth, death and everything in between.

How do we decide what’s true?

How do we manage to live together when we disagree so wildly with each other?

How do we separate the real from the made-up in a piece of theatre?

Make-believe is another Quarantine performance where real life doesn’t stop when the show starts… Working with philosopher Dr Michael Brady and writer Sonia Hughes, we’ll try to find out how belief works and see how much courage we have in our convictions.

Make-believe shows us how all the pretence has been put together and asks us to believe in it anyway. Dark, joyous and full of doubt, it’s a stunning mash-up of loud dance, fast music and things you should only tell your best friend…

Like all of Quarantine’s work, this is not a show in black and white.

Make-Believe toured to Contact; Manchester, Stage @ Leeds, Leeds; The Brewhouse Theatre & Arts Centre, Taunton; Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry; Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster; Exeter Phoenix, Exeter; Arnolfini, Bristol.

Make-believe is a co-production with Contact, supported by Arts Council England.