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DEAD CATS

In rooms like this room people lie. Not little lies, the kinds of lies that kill people, or worse…

In rooms like this room, language is laundered. The name of the game is spin.

Dead Cats blends new writing, performance, film-making, and an obvious plant, to show – not tell – the truths behind the fictions.

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A DANGEROUS THING

(part of the truth to power project)

A Dangerous Thing is a new, digitally animated work created in response to a world full of uncertainty.

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The Truth to Power Project - Black serif text on white background.

THE TRUTH TO POWER PROJECT

The Truth to Power Project is a socially-engaged exploration of power, democracy, truth-telling, protest, privacy, conspiracy, and control.

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Two figures in brightly coloured sports wear, grappling. Spiral Holds #03, Phoebe Davies, 2020

MANIFESTOS FOR THE FUTURE (2020)

Mansions of the Future and Proto-type Theater invite artists, theatre makers and creative practitioners, living or professionally based in the Midlands, to encounter radical and challenging approaches to creating work and developing their practice.

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Main promo image for Proto-type Theater's 'The Audit (or Iceland, a modern myth)'. Two women stand side-by-side speaking into a blue loudhailer..

THE AUDIT (or Iceland, a modern myth)

The global economy is a mess. The crash has landed, the tide’s swept out, and it’s taken our hope with it. The rich have got richer, the middle’s squeezed tight, and the poor are being dragged ever downwards.

The Audit tells the story of how a nation raised their voices in protest, and how collective power can move a mountain – even if only a little.

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Main promo image for Proto-type Theater's 'A Machine they're Secretly Building'. Two women wearing hot pink balaclavas facing each other. It's not clear whether the balaclavas are being put on or taken off.

A MACHINE THEY’RE SECRETLY BUILDING

From what might be a news desk, an office, a bedroom, a bunker under a mountain or a theatre, two people – reporters, senators, freedom fighters, or just… well… concerned citizens like you – think about what it is to speak up, speak out, blow the whistle and lift the veil.

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