Futures Flares Festival: What Am I Doing This For?

Wed Jan 21 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC+00:00

Grosvenor East Performance Studio (1.04) | Manchester

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Futures Flares Festival: What Am I Doing This For?
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What Am I Doing This For? by Will Dickie (Work in Progress)
An absurdist montage of psychophysicality, assembled from the movements and sounds of a human being trying to understand.
A lone figure asks ‘what am I doing this for?’ They are moving and making strange sounds. Feelings arise, words and meanings come and go. The figure composes with these elements - pulling words apart, twisting sounds, marvelling at the feelings beneath; despairing at meaning when the meanings get manipulated.
The levels of propaganda, misinformation, victim blaming, aggression, separation, fear and suspicion we live with are absurd. This lo-fi composition mirrors that absurdity with its own - searching for an understanding that understands we can understand each other by understanding we don't understand each other.
A work that revels in the joys & complexities of our communicative powers and our human-ness, this show is dedicated to that part which lives and breathes and moves in the depths of us all, in ways that can never quite be explained - that part that returns us to the question - ‘what am I doing this for?’
Credits
Created & performed by WilL DickieDramaturgy & Devising from Kaite O'ReillyMovement direction by Fabíola SantanaThanks to Peader Kirk

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