The Nature Of Forgetting
The Nature Of Forgetting at Storyhouse, Chester
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The Nature Of Forgetting: Theatre Re
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About the show
Internationally acclaimed theatre company Theatre Re celebrates the 10th anniversary of its award-winning production The Nature of Forgetting with a major UK and international tour spanning Autumn 2026 and Spring 2027. The tour also coincides with Theatre Re’s 15th anniversary as a company. Recognised as one of the UK’s leading visual theatre companies,
Theatre Re is renowned for its signature approach, combining striking visual performance with original live music to create deeply moving, non-verbal productions that explore universal human challenges. The Nature of Forgetting has become the company’s defining work of the past decade.
In this breathtaking and explosive production, audiences meet Tom, who is living with early- onset dementia. As he prepares for his 55th birthday party, he is swept away into a whirlwind of memories: classroom antics, his first kiss, his wedding day and the key moments that shape our lives.
The Nature of Forgetting takes audiences on a life-affirming journey into a weakening mind, asking what remains when memory begins to disappear. Developed in collaboration with neuroscience professor Kate Jeffery and the Alzheimer’s Society, the production offers a carefully researched and deeply human portrayal of memory loss.
Featuring - Theatre Re
Formed in 2009, Theatre Re is an international theatre company creating physical and emotional work on the edge of mime and theatre.
The company is based in London and has toured work in Edinburgh, London, Dublin, Avignon, Paris, and Lyon. Corporeal mime, described as “making the invisible visible”, is at the heart of the company's work.
'Spellbinding physical theatre, Theatre Re has a gorgeous aesthetic quality' (A Younger Theatre).