Everything Flickers | The Blue Room Theatre

Through installation art, dance, live music, and contemporary performance this promenade work deconstructs what it is to be an artist and reimagines it in every beautiful and depraved light.

Everything Flickers is created somewhere between wanting to change the world and wanting to make ends meet. A show trying to perform itself inside a theatre that lost its funding three years earlier, trying to tell a new story after years of funding cuts and a government policy of cultural devaluation. Despite these obstacles, there is an extraordinary, perhaps foolhardy, ongoing- ness amongst communities of people still engaged in the radical project of envisioning better worlds.

Clea Purkis, Nathan Calvert and William Gammel lead the audience through installations, multi-media worlds and paper stages, all while trying to tell you a story. In absurd, hilarious and heartfelt ways these ‘starving artists’ are determined to create something so perfect and profound it might just change the world. But mostly they are just making a mess.

It is a love letter to the spaces, places, people and stories which persist – flickering in the wake of cultural losses but never fading. In a cacophony of hope, failure and Tom Foolery, these artists ask one thing of their audience; think beautiful things, believe it was all like that.