Twi men sat down, one is looking up, the other man sat with his arms crossed

22 & 23 Jul 2025

Your Best Guess

mala voadora & Chris Thorpe

Life is entirely unpredictable. But what if we could rewrite history?

Event Details
Date 22 & 23 Jul 2025
Times 7.30pm
Location The Beacon – Cliffe Castle Park
Tickets £8 ↓
Access
  • Wheelchair user access

We can’t help living in the future – booking flights for holidays, organising birthday parties, writing applications, sending out invitations, producing T-shirts for tours. But all of this is merely supposition.

When the time comes, these things may happen according to plan, or they may not.

Life is entirely unpredictable. But what if we could rewrite history? What if we could imagine that things had turned out differently even if they had not? What if we could anticipate all roads to the future, so that we could be prepared for any possible scenario?

Portuguese theatre company mala voadora and writer and performer Chris Thorpe collaborate in Your Best Guess to investigate this unpredictability. They explore more concrete phenomena such as undetonated bombs, goodbye letters, ghost cities, amulets. And, intrigued by the way we bet on the future, they will locate that exact point of consciousness at which things either work out as planned or go awry.

A co-production of Porto City Hall Council for Culture, Culturgest and mala voadora, with support from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and funding from DGARTES.

Visit The Beacon in Cliffe Castle Park

The Beacon is a custom-made touring venue for Bradford 2025.

From 10 July – 10 August, The Beacon will be at Cliffe Castle Park.

Plan your visit below, or get in touch with us on [email protected] for more information.

Cliffe Castle Park
Spring Gardens Ln,
Keighley,
BD20 6LH

Credits
Written by Chris Thorpe
Directed by Jorge Andrade
Performed by Chris Thorpe and Jorge Andrade

Image © António MV

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