UPCOMING SHOWS

A sailor who finds himself lost in an empty sea. He is not haunted by the ghosts of his past, but desperately trying to hold on to them as they grow ever distant. His voyage is about the liminal stages in our lives. When your past home isn’t home anymore, when the person you have become can no longer walk in your old shoes, you are adrift. Nostalgia charts Brian’s course ahead as he searches for a shore that no longer exists. Like him, we are lost and we have the right to be.

DETAILS

BRIAN is a two person, intimate show designed for thrust and in-the-round venues where lighting and soundscapes play an important role. This is a piece of Physical Theatre, deeply rooted in Ecological Theatre, utilising techniques such as immersion and atmosphere. We aim to take the audience on an enriching journey they will identify with and hopefully let their hand go, leaving them with a sense of home in their hearts. The unknown is bountiful. Diving into a foreign space and encountering foreign feelings can and probably will be the beginning of one's growth.

Documentary

In Collaboration with the amazing Director Julie Mareckova, BRIAN will also be followed by a film crew, adapting the process and the show into a documentary.  From filming interviews, research and creative development, Julie Mareckova´s work will be focused on documenting BRIAN´s social impact on communities both in education and work environments.

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It is important to stress that 30% of profit made during the tour of BRIAN   will be donated to  Refugee  Action, as they are the leading charity in helping immigrants, Asylum seekers and people in shifting stages of their life.

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Il Burattino begins in April 1942 and tells the story of Tino, an orphan native to Varallo Sesia, in Northern Piedmont, Italy.

Having always been perceived as the weaker one next to his older friend Romero, the boy is anxious to break away from his brotherly protection to carve out a life for himself. Romero wants the two to escape the draft by hiking into neutral Switzerland, but propaganda has secretly fed Tino the hope and inspiration he needs to go his own way, which leads to him joining the 2nd Infantry Division in Novara, bound for the bleak Eastern front.

With him, he brings a puppet, il burattino (in Italian), which was a birthday gift from his friend, Milana, who adores the boy. The puppet is a constant source of entertainment for other soldiers, as the boy uses it to boost morale by imitating the king and Mussolini in ways that become increasingly derogatory and slanderous as conditions worsen. Partly because of this, a companionship is formed between Tino and an older soldier named Virgil.