Binary Opposition | Reckless Sleepers
A world of mirror image rooms, shifting logic, and playful disruptions of identity as Reckless Sleepers return to Salford's Lowry on Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th October with brand-new work Binary Opposition, their most visually and conceptually ambitious project yet. Commissioned by Lowry, this new work premieres in the UK this October, offering a bold reflection on symmetry, collision, and theatrical possibility.
At its heart, Binary Opposition is an investigation of duality. On stage sits a large construction: two adjoining rooms separated by a dividing wall. Within this space Reckless Sleepers explore entrances and exits, mistaken identities, and the collision of time and space.
Drawing on threads from their earlier works the company remixes their past, allowing moments to spill, overlap, invert, or mirror each other. If in one side it’s dark; the other would be light. In one room it’s full on the other side empty.
Binary Opposition is more than a performance—it has been evolving through workshops with children and young people both in the UK and Europe, installations of the wooden frame structure (that defines the two rooms).
It is a culmination of over 20 years of Reckless Sleepers’ exploration of form, structure, rules, logic and space. The project builds on earlier works, Schrödinger (Black) and Negative Space (White) and bringing these two performances together. But is not simply retrospective; it is a living, breathing experiment, one where past meets the present.
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