Tenebrae - Neil Bartlett - Brighton Festival 2021
The live element on Saturday, May 22 sold out within hours – and will be attended by 250 people on the day in socially-distanced groups of 25. But the wider public can still enjoy the build-up to it online. A series of 15 short graphic films featuring some of its sounds and words will be available on the Brighton Festival website from Saturday, May 8 to Saturday, May 22. The same link will also give you access to 15 specially commissioned poems, all by Brighton writers, that reflect on the themes of the piece.
Inspired by the liturgy of Tenebrae — the church ritual in which lights are gradually extinguished and the building recedes into darkness — a team of artists will fill the theatre with sound and light, inviting the groups present to experience a haunting descent into blackness.