Overview
Press
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The team
Guided
Tour
Peter Reder has been creating original performance, video and installation works since 1993. He is working with Fuel on his site-responsive performance piece, Guided Tour.
Guided Tour is a promenade performance sited in an historic
building, in which the role of the tour guide is used as a conduit for counter
histories, philosophical musings, personal revelations, and downright lies;
a provocative undermining of the form. The history of the building is presented
as an unstable narrative, prone to a variety of mediating influences which
are carefully unpicked during the course of the performance. This is a tourist
experience for the disenchanted, a quiet interrogation of the notion of the
authentic and our thirst for the original. Guided Tour was premiered at McEwan
Hall at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2005, in association with the Traverse
Theatre. Supported by the British Council.
In 2006 Guided Tour has been presented at the Tretykov Gallery in Moscow, The Coliseum in Bucharest, the National Museum of Singapore and Arizona State University.
There’s so much history around,
so many books,
TV programs,
museums,
heritage sites,
There’s no space left for the present.
Or was it the other way round,
It’s all present, without any past?
(Guided Tour, final chapter)
Press
Pick of the week
The Guardian
divertingly smart
Financial Times
It’s a tourist outing for deconstructionists
The Scotsman
**** takes us down a fascinating road of cultural discovery
The List
This show is available for touring. For more information email info@fueltheatre.com
The team
Peter Reder was born in 1960 in London, where he continues to live and work.
He studied music in London and theatre in Paris and has been creating original
performance, video and installation works since 1993. He has produced work
in the UK for LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre), National Theatre
Studio, South London Gallery, and Somerset House, and internationally in Germany,
Singapore and Australia.
For more information visit www.peter-reder.co.uk
