Made In China's TONIGHT I'M GONNA BE THE NEW ME Launches UK Tour Tonight

Following highly successful 2015 runs in Edinburgh and London, Made In China's TONIGHT I'M GONNA BE THE NEW ME now embarks on a UK tour from February to May 2016. It exposes how we conduct our relationships amidst a reality that just won't live up to what the movies promised.

A woman takes to the stage. A man watches from the wings. They both wonder if their love will survive what's about to happen.

TONIGHT I'M GONNA BE THE NEW ME is an arresting physical endurance act that crashes headfirst into an impossibly true love story - and out the other side. Based on the real relationship of Made In China's founders Tim Cowbury and Jess Latowicki, it pierces the heart of intimacy and immediacy and defies you to watch in spite of yourself.

Although based on the rawness of reality, Cowbury and Latowicki distance the story from real life and spin truth into fiction. We aren't completely sure if it's true. Disarmingly honest and comically imagined, this disjuncture is typical of Made In China. TONIGHT I'M GONNA BE THE NEW ME forces us to consider how much we can endure - in relationships, in society and in life.

Between the dancing, terms of endearments and dizzy confusion two personalities emerge fighting to be heard. During the show Latowicki puts words into the mouths of various audience members, asking questions and feeding the answers. We are part of this performance, of Latowicki's mission to gain control. Is this scripted? Did she really just miss a line? How much of this is their real-life relationship? Who has the power here?

UK Tour - February - May 2016:

Made In China presents

TONIGHT I'M GONNA BE THE NEW ME

2nd February - The House @ Plymouth University
16th March - South Street Arts Centre, Reading
23rd March - Colchester Arts Centre
8th - 9th April - Theatr Iolo at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
14th April - ShowRoom, Chichester
19th - 23rd April - Bike Shed, Exeter
26th April - Warwick Arts Centre
28th - 30th April - The Studio, Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre
23rd May - Norwich Arts Centre
28th May - Pulse Festival, Ipswich

Running time: 70 minutes

Tickets are available from individual theatre box office.

Made In China make theatre that playfully explores the paradoxes of modern identity, crossing the borders between playwriting and performance art. Their work is about little absurdities and big issues that come from living and looking out at the world from the waning west. It's about buying too much and knowing lots but doing little. Feeling powerless yet being from a so-called democratic superpower. Their performances are a careful blend of dark humour, deadpan dialogue and punishing physical tasks. They put relatable stories into the mouths of vulnerable and unreliable narrators. They invite their audience to relax and enjoy then put difficult questions to them. They aim to excite and unsettle in equal measure. Made In China is Tim Cowbury (UK) and Jessica Latowicki (US) with associate artist Christopher Brett Bailey (Canada). They are currently based in London. See madeinchinatheatre.com for more.

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