Project Archive
2006
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing like the truth
“How do you manage to know so much about people? “ Audience Member, Leeds
Premiered July 2004
Artists
Concept - Jen Wren
Choreography - Jen Wren & Originating Cast
Composition - Richard Easson
Costumes - Jen Wren
Lighting - Mark Baker
Originating Cast - Lee Davern, Mel Newing, & Pip Sadler
Photography - Mel Newing
In the production of "The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing Like The Truth", Wren delves again into the human psyche and the misconstrued human behaviours that can emerge from it. By introducing the audience to a comically characterised, compulsive liar who is living between the two worlds of fact and fantasy, Wren offers an insight into the way that people perceive life, and the lengths they will go to avoid meeting their own feelings.
Working with the premise that compulsive lying is a learned behaviour and a coping strategy, the work choreographically scrutinises how an avoidance of truth and reality can open up gateways to alternative realities. The question is; who’s reality are you in?.
Our partners and stakeholders for this project, to whom we are forever grateful, were: Arts Council England, Yorkshire Dance, Madrid Conservatoire of Dance, Community Firefighters (Madrid).
“You have made something really exciting, amazingly executed and balanced with a sophisticated interplay”
Audience Member, Leeds
Touring and Accolades
The truth, the whole truth and nothing like the truth, was performed in 2006 to 2007 in venues around Yorkshire. After premiering at the Pulse Dance Festival in York, it was taken to the Yorkshire Dance Centre, Theatre in the Mill (Bradford), and Leeds University. It was cited as revelatory in its juxtaposition of pathos and humour; a piece of work that should have a much longer shelf life. Maybe we’ll see it again one day.
“Your talents never end!” Sharon Watson
