Following on from the hugely successful Blackouts, this poetic performance of peculiar personas takes Dickie’s sensational multimedia aesthetic to hallucinatory new heights.

Continuing his shtick of using playback, in which he 'channels' voices he sees as being misplaced, misrepresented or misunderstood, Dickie breathes new life into found sound, 're-writing' audio artefacts and playing them back through his body to become a live performing archive of the missing.

Presenting a compelling constellation of vivid characters inspired by cultural antiquity, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Lost in Trans - is an off-road trip through the cultural archives. Cyclops, the one-eyed giant, becomes a third eye through which we view the world anew, including a radical re-visioning of Echo, the Nymph, of whom all that remained when she died of a broken heart was the sound of her voice...

Conceived and performed by Dickie Beau

Dramaturg – Julia Bardsley

Lighting Design – Marty Langthorne

Producer – Sally Rose

10 & 11 December

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COMPETITION: Win 1 x pair of tickets for Lost In Trans at Toynbee Studios on Thursday 10 December at 19:30. To enter the competition, send an email to bojana@run-riot.com with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ box. The winner will be randomly selected.

Q: Lost in Trans is inspired by cultural antiquity and…:

A: 1) Euripides’ Medea 2) Kafka’s Metamorphosis 3) Ovid’s Metamorphoses