Costume / Performance Designer
— The Role: Devising Performer —
Directors: Roberto Sanchez Pierola / Hao Wu
Performers: Sha Lu/ Hella Stichlmair/ Natasha Zierhofer
Cracken Theatre Production @ New River Studios, London
Inspired by Gordon Craig and Tadeusz Kantor’s work, Crakan explores alternative performing techniques in the search for powerful scenic action.
East Asia meets South America in Northern Europe to attempt an interculturally-minded approach to Western Theatre. Buddhist and Andean perspectives weave into subvert and question our logocentric neoliberal capitalist context by proposing other ways to perceive the world and our relationship with it.
A group of shadows take on the strings of destiny and the rotating machinery that moves it to engage us on a journey through the struggles of life, the silence of death and the depths of fading memories.
Hypnotic puppetry techniques, physical theatre and object animation blend together to bring us this unforgettable experience in which imaginative situations come alive
through fascinating transformations.
More info: www.crakantheatre.com