.jpg)
Underbelly Baby Belly , Venue 88,12:10
***½
Spectaculary storytelling tour de force after a tale by Hans Cristian Andersen ,the performance ”The Shadow”, produced by the British theatre company Feast Theatre, makes the audience doubtful about the ingenuity of one’s desire to control life and make it look „better” . 3 strange girls, or more specifically 3 actresses who master the fine art of clowning , draw the audience into a fantastic world where a shadow is troubled because its master, a poet, denies its importance in his life. In his pursuit of ideals, the poet wants to forget about all mundane things , writing boring poems continously and without inspiration about the good side of life.
Right from the beginning a strange captivating tension is created by the three storytelling-clowns who quarrel with each other about the storyline .The subject of the story is the basis of this fight , as the mistery of the shadow stirs a lot of questions that open up that sort of childish curiosity usually forbidden and forgotten in our daily life.
A simple mobile projection screen, a table and a chair, three talented actresses and a few inspired lighting changes transform the stage for each action scene in a very imaginative way, modern and poetical at the same time. It’s quite amazing what they can create with such unexpensive means. Perhaps what they offer is the kind of drug that makes us all go to the theatre: a little inspiration.
Each of the three actresses plays a storyteller and a character, the frail line between them being transgressed symbolically with a single rigurous gesture. The Shadow , The Poet and The Princess are the messangers of neverending dilemas surrounding fundamental problems . By avoiding thinking about violence, our shadow, we only make the ideals we fight for weaker. By sticking to our shadow there is no room left for hope.
The shadow or the least visible part of ourselves doesn’t show up in full light,and by its tricks lets us think that we can completely control ourselves. Yukio Mishima wrote somewhere about the moment of fascination when a parachutist approaches the ground: for some seconds the man and his shadow seem to be liberated of their bond. The fantasy and the talent of the young performers give the audience a ride into the fantastic shadowy world that we carry beside us.
***½
Spectaculary storytelling tour de force after a tale by Hans Cristian Andersen ,the performance ”The Shadow”, produced by the British theatre company Feast Theatre, makes the audience doubtful about the ingenuity of one’s desire to control life and make it look „better” . 3 strange girls, or more specifically 3 actresses who master the fine art of clowning , draw the audience into a fantastic world where a shadow is troubled because its master, a poet, denies its importance in his life. In his pursuit of ideals, the poet wants to forget about all mundane things , writing boring poems continously and without inspiration about the good side of life.
Right from the beginning a strange captivating tension is created by the three storytelling-clowns who quarrel with each other about the storyline .The subject of the story is the basis of this fight , as the mistery of the shadow stirs a lot of questions that open up that sort of childish curiosity usually forbidden and forgotten in our daily life.
A simple mobile projection screen, a table and a chair, three talented actresses and a few inspired lighting changes transform the stage for each action scene in a very imaginative way, modern and poetical at the same time. It’s quite amazing what they can create with such unexpensive means. Perhaps what they offer is the kind of drug that makes us all go to the theatre: a little inspiration.
Each of the three actresses plays a storyteller and a character, the frail line between them being transgressed symbolically with a single rigurous gesture. The Shadow , The Poet and The Princess are the messangers of neverending dilemas surrounding fundamental problems . By avoiding thinking about violence, our shadow, we only make the ideals we fight for weaker. By sticking to our shadow there is no room left for hope.
The shadow or the least visible part of ourselves doesn’t show up in full light,and by its tricks lets us think that we can completely control ourselves. Yukio Mishima wrote somewhere about the moment of fascination when a parachutist approaches the ground: for some seconds the man and his shadow seem to be liberated of their bond. The fantasy and the talent of the young performers give the audience a ride into the fantastic shadowy world that we carry beside us.
No comments:
Post a Comment