That Night Follows Day review – adults' truths and lies, voiced by children

Southbank Centre, London
Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment present a mesmeric show in which a young cast consider what grownups tell them

‘You tell us to grow up.” On a simple set of scraping chairs, children perform to an audience of adults. In direct address, they roll through the instructions, truths and lies that parents and guardians feed them, each sentence a variation on “You tell us …”

First performed in Belgium in 2007, the script has been workshopped again with a new cast of 8-14-year-olds, supervised by renowned befuddlers Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment. Some of the text remains the same, as wisdom and idiocy often do, while additions root it in today’s world. Collectively, the cast detail the orders they are given each morning, the warnings doled out at night and the facts they are taught each day.

At Southbank Centre, London, until 15 December.

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