Susan & Darren: an event with dancing

Quarantine and Company Fierce (UK)

Susan Pritchard is Darren Pritchard’s mother. She is fifty-five and he is thirty. Darren lives at home with Susan, in the house he grew up in. Darren is a dancer. Susan cleans, for Darren, and professionally. They dance together at home to John Holt, Althea and Donna and Diana Ross. You’d spot that they were mother and son instantly.

You are invited to help Susan and Darren prepare for one of their famous parties.  Along the way there will be devastation, intimate conversation and a lovely buffet.  Friends and neighbours might pop in.

Come and join the party.

Quarantine and Company Fierce join forces with choreographer Jane Mason and writer Sonia Hughes to invent a kind of performance where real life doesn’t stop when the show starts. A huge hit nationally and internationally, Susan & Darren won the Best Production Award and played to sell-out audiences at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2008.

Pre-show Dance Workshop!
Darren Pritchard will lead a dance workshop before each performance of Susan & Darren, which will alter the course of that night's show. All ages and levels of dance experience are welcome. Free to ticket-holders, but booking is essential. Click here for details.

Reviews

Quarantine is quite simply a marvel, a company that's right at the forefront of British theatre…..immensely touching, totally human yet also intellectually rigorous in their examination of the nature of performance and the raising of questions about what makes theatre seem real and reality so strongly theatrical…

- Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

This production is so creatively original, so technically assured, and so successfully unlike anything in this reviewer’s experience that it merits a five star rating….intimate, life-affirming, utterly magical and unmissable. *****

- Noeleen Dowling, The Irish Times

Go out of your way to see it

- The Times

Media

Videos

More Info

Quarantine Website

KAF Blog - You Should Be Dancing - Inteview with Susan & Darren

The Observer: Theatre Q and A: Darren and Susan Pritchard: 'Working together has been a life-changing experience'

View videos of all performers in the Theatre & Dance programme

Theatre & Dance Curator Tom Creed talks about this years programme