imitating the dog bring a gripping ‘War of the Worlds’ adaptation to Lowry

This February, acclaimed visual theatre company imitating the dog bring their audacious adaptation of The War of the Worlds to Lowry for a four-day run packed with thrilling spectacle, innovative staging and timely resonance.

Following their critically acclaimed adaptations of various literary heavyweights including Heart of Darkness, Dracula, Macbeth and Frankenstein, the pioneering ‘multimedia daredevils’ (The Times) return with a bold rework of H. G. Wells’ apocalyptic classic.

Four performers enter the stage armed with cameras and transform the nerve-shredding alien invasion story into an epic road movie before the audience, using miniature environments, model worlds, camera tricks and projection, blending the animate and the inanimate to create an intensely gripping and wildly inventive piece of theatre both intimate yet vast in scale.

Extraterrestrial lifeforms fall from the skies, cities crumble into smouldering ruins and ordinary people are forced to confront the collapse of order. As Britain scrambles to survive, the production asks urgent questions about fear, morality and how far we might go to protect our own when everything we value is under threat.

Provocative, exhilarating and strikingly contemporary, War of the Worlds asks what you would do when everything you value is under threat, and how far you would go to protect your own, as imitating the dog push their extraordinary storytelling to new heights.

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