Press Information - Desert Rain

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“Blast Theory seems finally to offer Britain a theatre group that delves into our popular culture to create deeply challenging work.”

The Sunday Times

“Possibly the most technologically ambitious art installation ever made... exhilarating to experience first hand”

The Times

“a beautifully realised and unexpectedly involving experience”

The Glasgow Herald on Sunday

“Critics choice: Blast Theory is a company pushing theatre to its furthest limits”

The Guardian

“disturbing, provocative...state-of-the-art...excellent”

Metro

“brief, brilliant and to the point...superb”

The Glasgow Herald

“Desert Rain engages with serious issues in a genuinely innovative way...An extraordinary multimedia piece”

The List

“A complex and elaborate treatment of war in post-modern society...In developing Desert Rain, Blast Theory are attempting to fuse the use of technology with the moral system that exploits it, examining the way in which information is distorted, censored and manipulated by governments and the media. The ramifications of selective coverage, the perceived impartiality of the media and the problems raised by waging an allegedly ‘just’ war are laid bare by Desert Rain. It obfuscates the division of the real and the imagined, removing the boundaries between life and art, between spectator and participant, between innocent and guilty.”

The Scotsman Weekend

“I can guarantee that you will come out changed and humbled...utterly gripping...a brilliantly judged experience”

The Scotsman