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LAST RITES
30 Jan - 3 Feb
Ockham’s Razor
TESS
30 Jan - 3 FebMimeLondon -
supporting contemporary visual theatre
Stereoptik (France)
ANTECHAMBER
Barbican, The Pit. Tue 30 Jan > Sat 3 Feb
In a live, cinematic dreamscape, Antechamber reveals the creative process behind the making of an animation film.
With quickfire roughs and changes an artist’s pencil sketch takes shape, projected onto a screen above his table. An eraser appears and rubs it out. Its replacement charcoal drawing disappears in turn, giving way to painted landscape. Live keyboard and guitar accompaniment both drive and reflect what we see taking shape, dreams of the Amazonian jungle and an unfolding urban love story. Having followed the fascinating pathway of ideas transformed into screen reality, we finally see the completed film. It’s amazing, and created in front of our eyes.
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Tue-Sat 7.45pm, Sat mat 2.30pm
Runs 50 mins/no interval
Age guidance: 8+
After-show discussion: Thu 1 Feb (BSL interpreted)
Production: STEREOPTIK
Executive production: Les 2 Bureaux
Co-production: Théâtre de la Ville-Paris, Trident Scène nationale de Cherbourg L’Hectare - Territoires vendômois - Centre National de la Marionnette, Le Sablier - Centre Nationale de la Marionnette - Ifs, Le Parvis-Scène nationale de Tarbes, Le Lux- Scène nationale de Valence, the production company Folimage.
Partnerships: l’Echalier-Agence rurale de développement culturel-Couëtron-au-Perche, Théâtre des 2 Rives-Charenton-le-Pont.
Stereoptik acknowledges financial support from the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication/ DRAC Centre-Val de Loire and Région Centre-Val de Loire.
Photos: Stereoptik, Richard Schroeder, Christophe Reynaud de Lage
“With every shift in the sound comes a shift in the art: another roll of the paper on which landscapes unfurl, another twirl of the marionettes and another flick of paint to make our greyscale world glow Technicolor”
