Chris Thorpe

'f you pinned me against a wall, I'd probably admit to being a liberal. Of course, pinning me against a wall is exactly what I'd expect from someone like you'.

This is a show about the gulfs we can't talk across, about the way we choose only to see the evidence that proves we're right: the phenomenon of confirmation bias.

Written and performed by Chris Thorpe and developed with and directed by Rachel Chavkin (Director of Catch 22, Brighton Festival 2014), Confirmation is an attempt to have an honourable dialogue with political extremism - to find out why we believe what we believe and how we can end up so far apart.

'Thorpe's dramatically charged show challenges our own biases and beliefs in a Ted talk-turned-passionate provocation' (Lyn Gardner, The Guardian).