THEM! THE CITIZENS THEATRE, GLASGOW
Stewart Laing and Pamela Carter’s THEM! for National Theatre of Scotland explores identity, technological change and the nature of the theatrical event through a response to the 1950s sci-fi b-movie THEM!. The performance event takes place in three distinct parts and includes the staging of a TV chat show, live music, installation, film and 150,000 leaf cutter ants.
THEM! attempts to push the theatrical situation to its limits in order to examine the shifting contract between audience and performers. THEM! is at once the 1950s film and the 2019 response, it is both the fictional sci-fi remake and the theatre show we are watching, it is the TV show, the advert, the club and the sci-fi action musical.
Opening Date: July 2019
Director/designer: Stewart Laing