(Scottish Premiere)

“fantastically clever, deep and thought provoking”

Once you have walked round it a few times, the situation seems to be understandable enough. An imaginary space in the middle, with one door leading into it.  The other door on the far side of it leads to who knows where.

Four people occupy this half-physical, half-virtual place, often occupying both at once, a live performer being shadowed by a life size video double.  Mare’s Nest is a play about double, triple and quadruple lives interacting in the complex, augmented space where architecture and video meet.

“Those English are demoniac. They can be in several places at the same time…one may think they are over here when they are already over there.  Even better, they multiply themselves before your very eyes.  There are only four of them but you would think there are forty of them…they literally take the audience to the four corners of the theatre, transforming it into a playground,” Le Temps Geneva

Station House Opera was founded in 1980 since when it has developed into an internationally renowned performance company with a unique physical and visual style.  The work varies enormously in scale and location and uses spectacle to explore the intimate relationship between people and the environment they inhabit.

An Artsadmin project, funded by the Arts Council of England and London Arts.  Co-production, La Batie, Geneva

www.stationhouseopera.com

Friday 8 & Saturday 9 March 19h30

Tramway 1

 

Pre Performance Discussion                           

Mary Brennan, Critic The Herald, in discussion with producer, Judith Knight (Artsadmin)

Saturday 9 March 18h30