A disrupted performance lecture about wildness, extinction and what counts as civilised, inspired by found slides taken at the Bronx Zoo in the 1980s and Margaret Thatcher’s refusal to transport a Panda to America on her first diplomatic trip to visit Ronald Reagan.

Too Close to the Sun is an interdisciplinary theatre company who work across performance, visual art, video, and sound, to devise dark and provocative works that evoke an unsettling, dreamlike experience. Their performances often spring from found images and objects – such as a sleeve of slides discovered in a New York City antique shop.

During Adhocracy, the artists will explore the form of the performance lecture that is broken by the challenges of enacting wildness; and the spaces between the wild and the intellectual that are mirrored in the true stories told in this fascinating work.

Creative team
Co-creators – Talya Rubin and Nick James; Videographer – Sam James; Sound designer – Hayley Forward

Image: Talya Rubin and Nick James