About Slope
2006
Slope involved a 60-metre ramp, leading to a sunken playing area, in which the audience watched an intimate performance in a fully plumbed Victorian bathroom. The text by Pamela Carter took a fresh look at the chaotic lives of the poets Rimbaud and Verlaine. Slope contemplated the nature of addiction and the nature of desire. A co-production with Tramway.
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Performances
- Jul 1 - Jul 1, 2006 at Tramway
Reviews
SLOPE is a bold production featuring committed performances from its two leads, but separating the artists from their art reduces a complex relationship to sex, drugs and squalor. What sticks in the mind afterwards is not a great line of poetry, but the sound of a flushing toilet.
Onstage Scotland