People Show are devised theatre pioneers, multi-disciplinary, multi-media trailblazers, without whom the landscape of British conceptual theatre would look very different. This October, they return to pub theatre with a three-week run of their new show, People Show 145.
An electrifying and strangely topical story, People Show 145: The Diviners plays out in an imaginary world not so far from our own. Four broken AI entities, each colour-coded, are trying to make sense of the world – but they no longer have the correct data. These are The Diviners. A vibrant cuboid trap defines the parameters of their actions with hot spots calling the shots and flickering projections giving clues. In their fragmented state, they explore a nether world existing between the lines of stories and through lost harmonics of music.
Every People Show production is the unique sum of the imaginations of the people involved in creating it. People Show 145: The Diviners is written and performed by Gareth Brierley, Sadie Cook, Fiona Creese and George Khan. Each night they will be joined by a Secret Star Guest from the 300+ artist collaborators who have worked with the company over the past 57 years since People Show 1 in 1966. Its first show was based around the performance of the then up-and-coming band Pink Floyd.
People Show are always looking for the untested idea. They develop, write and design their shows starting on the day they arrive in rehearsal. Ideas, stories, world events, tirades, experiments in staging and music spark the material which is shaped and crafted into the final piece.
Over the years, People Show has presented work in fields, phone boxes, nightclubs, toilets, parks and on water. This is their first show at the Golden Goose Theatre which was set up in the height of Covid by another theatrical risk-taker Michael Kingsbury, also the founder and artistic director of the White Bear in Kennington.
Golden Goose Theatre, 146 Camberwell New Rd, London SE5 0RR. Dates: Tuesday 10 to Saturday 28 October at 7.30pm. Admission: £16 (£12 concessions).
