Performance - part 1 audio (20 minutes repeated)
An audio piece where audience members can sit and listen to various stories from different walks of life. There will be an invitation to share their own story with a stranger if they wish. Set in the cafe area of the theatre and played through personal headphones. Discover something you have yet to know about yourself or another.
Performance - part 2 solo performance (30-40 minutes for studio space)
A song is playing that only you can hear. There is a block in the way which changed everything. You are here but you are also somewhere else. It doesn't make sense but somehow it does. Things can not reach you. The gramophone is playing that same old song but you can't hear it anymore. Age is a troublesome thing. It has taken you away from me, there is a shadow where your former self used to be and now just a shell of you remains. It captured parts of you that will never return but your heart remains in the places it used to be. I will crank up our favourite song and secretly wish for you to send me a sign that you are making your way back to me. We will dance like those old couples in black and white movies wearing our best clothes and everyone will remember it like we are in times where things are back to how they ought to be. Your mind will come back to earth and we will whisper about our childhood memories whilst drinking tea and stealing the chance to be how we used to be before our time is up. You fade away again and I blink and wish it was morning. I sit and wait patiently for you to return again whilst singing a song only you can hear. You will come back when the time is right. I feel it in my bones and I sit and wait.
A solo performance focuses around movement, audio, text and gentle audience participation for a group audience. The piece centes around exploring the theme of loss and what lies on the opposite side of your biggest fear. Asking what is trying to break through the sadness? What is lost? What is gained? Can we lose everything and begin again? Why are you turning away from everything you have ever dreamed of? What stops it all? Are you ready?
Pause, stop, reflect, begin again. We are here with you with it all. I will hold your hand for as long as you need.
Devised and performed by Lauren Hart
A solo performance focuses around movement, audio, text and gentle audience participation for a group audience. The piece centes around exploring the theme of loss and what lies on the opposite side of your biggest fear. Asking what is trying to break through the sadness? What is lost? What is gained? Can we lose everything and begin again? Why are you turning away from everything you have ever dreamed of? What stops it all? Are you ready?
Pause, stop, reflect, begin again. We are here with you with it all. I will hold your hand for as long as you need.
Devised and performed by Lauren Hart