Swimming Pools

BILINGUAL EDITION - EDICI"N BILINGE

ENGLISH

Across a series of imagined swimming pools, arranged like the ascending levels of a retro video game, a sequence of intimate monologues are gently teased out, all balanced on a knife-edge between revelation and delirium. As our protagonists whisper their confessions through the voices and bodies of the four women onstage, the swimming pool itself is re-conceived as a kind of manmade utopia, a paradise in miniature, a site of ecstatic miracles and otherworldly beauty.

Wrestling fearlessly with the particular demons of the early 21st century - rampant capitalism, toxic masculinity, internet boredom - Swimming Pools is a psychedelic new show about desire and melancholia and how we might live together in the blinding brightness of the future.

This special bilingual, parallel-text edition of Swimming Pools also includes the full text for the unperformed work Paradise.

Sleepwalk Collective is an award-winning live-art and experimental- theatre group creating fragile, nocturnal performances between the UK and Spain. Their shows include As The Flames Rose We Danced To The Sirens, The Sirens, Domestica, Kourtney Kardashian, and Psychodrama (with Christopher Brett Bailey).

'Few theatre-makers capture the vertiginous thrill and terror of contemporary existence as captivatingly as Sleepwalk Collective'

- The Guardian

ESPA'OL

A trav©s de una serie de piscinas imaginadas, dispuestas como los niveles ascendentes de un videojuego retro, se desborda una secuencia de mon³logos ­ntimos, todos ellos equilibrados sobre el fino filo que separa revelaci³n de delirio. A medida que nuestras protagonistas susurran y ejecutan sus confesiones a trav©s de las voces y cuerpos de las cuatro mujeres que habitan la escena, la piscina en s­ misma vuelve a concebirse como una especie de utop­a artificial, un para­so en miniatura, un lugar para milagros ext¡ticos y belleza comprometedora.

Luchando intr©pidamente con los demonios particulares de principios del siglo XXI: capitalismo desenfrenado, masculinidad t³xica, aburrimiento cibern©tico y fatiga emocional, Swimming Pools es una nueva pieza psicod©lica acerca del deseo y la melancol­a, y de c³mo parece que podr­amos vivir juntos bajo el brillo cegador del futuro.

Esta edici³n especial biling¼e de Swimming Pools incluye tambi©n el texto completo de la pieza no estrenada Paradise.

Sleepwalk Collective es una galardonada compa±­a de arte en vivo y teatro experimental que crea experiencias esc©nicas e ­ntimos entre el Reino Unido y Espa±a. Sus piezas para teatros incluyen As The Flames Rose We Danced To The Sirens, The Sirens, Domestica, Kourtney Kardashian, y Psychodrama (con Christopher Brett Bailey).

'Pocos creadores esc©nicos capturan la emoci³n vertiginosa y el terror existencial contempor¡neo de forma tan cautivadora como Sleepwalk Collective'

- The Guardian