Written by Etchells following workshops with the performers it follows his approach in Forced Entertainment projects such as Speak Bitterness and Quizoola! in creating a catalogue of at times contradictory utterances, here exploring with both clarity humour, the economies of parenting, education, discipline and care. That Night Follows Day speaks to the ways that adults project onto children, and to the ways that adults and children alike are both constrained and made by language as they try to describe their experiences and imagine their own futures.

Spoken in unison by a group of young performers the text for That Night Follows Day constitutes them formally as a kind of choir or chorus, a construction that is shattered as the dynamics of the live performance develop and as the statements of the text become more personal, less generic, and indeed, more confrontational. As in much of Etchells’ work for theatre and performance That Night Follows Day draws attention to the real situation, expectations and problematics of its own presentation, in this case the charged event of adults watching children and young people, of young people speaking and adults listening.

That Night Follows Day is the second in a series of Victoria productions with children (but for an adult audience) which started with üBUNG by Josse De Pauw (2001). Tour dates and additional info are available via the Victoria site.

UK reviews of That Night Follows Day:
The Herald
The Scotsman
The Financial Times

Tim Etchells Notebook entries which comment on or show pictures from That Night Follows Day:
May 2007
May 2007
November 2007
August 2008