The Abattoir Pages
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - LONDON 07/09/09
Guerrilla Zoo and FoolishPeople present
The Abattoir Pages
Thurs 22nd - Sat 31st October 2009
Guerilla Zoo and FoolishPeople present The Abattoir Pages, an immersive Halloween event, hosted in a vast, secret subterranean landscape that was once one of London's largest abattoirs.
The Abattoir Pages combines immersive performance, art installation, haunting and treasure hunt-style devices to form a labyrinth of mystery and horror, exposing the earliest Gaelic and Pagan rites. Once inside, audience members will be free to explore the abandoned underground chambers, join the secret party or may be caught in the middle of the most terrifying of puzzles.
Synopsis
This Hallowe’en, the infamous horror author Helen Mayer will hold court at a debauched secret party. She will share the perverse and warped research conducted inside the old abandoned abattoir, which was the genesis of her greatest work. In this dark playground, the very nature of human terror has been tested, abused and fed into the living story 'The Forest'.
The author invites you to solve the puzzle and unlock the terrifying history within the old and powerful pages hidden throughout the slaughterhouse. Each holds a key to learning the truth of an ancient tale, which will ensure your survival.
Tonight, a debt will be repaid to blood dishonoured. An eternal nightmare rises up from the depths of the dark boreal forest, in the shadow of the mountain. It comes to feed on new meat inside an old abattoir.
The Abattoir Pages marks the evolution of the open source meta event as FoolishPeople partner with Guerilla Zoo in an exciting first-time collaboration of two of London's most renowned art organisations alongside cutting edge artists and performers. The production follows FoolishPeople's critically acclaimed sell-out run of 'Cirxus' at the Arcola Theatre and precedes Guerilla Zoo's 'Season of Alejandro Jodorowsky' productions. ‘The Abattoir Pages’ is the prologue to a new, large scale work which will be undertaken by FoolishPeople in 2010.
Listings Information:
22 October- 31 October 2009
7.30pm, 8.30pm & 9.30pm entrance times
Entry price £15
Limited edition tickets £20
Tuesday 27th Pay what you can- Subject to availability
Book tickets online: guerrillazoo.com or foolishpeople.com or call 07597576075
The Old Abattoir, 187- 211 St. John's Street, Clerkenwell, London. EC1V 4LS
Not suitable for people of a nervous disposition.
Notes to editors:
Guerrilla Zoo is also producing a ‘Season of Alejandro Jodorowsky’ productions throughout November 09 including a theatre production, a live event, 2 major art exhibitions, exclusive talks and midnight film screenings.
FoolishPeople is currently in pre-production for their forthcoming feature film entitled 'GraveLand' and are planning another large scale immersive event next year, forming a collaboration with Integrate design company.
The Abattoir Pages will feature a transatlantic collaboration between sound artists P. Emerson Williams and Sonica Storm.
Guerrilla Zoo curates and creates conceptual spaces and events with cross-platform ideas, promoting artists from contemporary music, art and performance, via their unique approach into creative platforms, networking and audience participation.
Founded in 1989, FoolishPeople create immersive theatre, live art, collaborative events and film which aim to raise a numinous, transformative experience within the witness to instigate positive change.
For further information, please contact:
Lucy Allin, FoolishPeople
lucena@foolishpeople.org
Foolishpeople.org
guerrillazoo.com