Nola Rae
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27 - 28 JanThe Place
Fri 27 - Sat 28 Jan7.30pm
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Runs: 70 mins/no interval
Age Guidance: 15+
£18 (£14 concs) Discounts apply.
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After-show discussion:
Fri 27 Jan (BSL interpreted)
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"Fantastical theatre of images, richly mixing sensuality, eroticism and stunning theatrical imagination"
Le SoirA museum comes to life in the depths of night as a gallery of tortured souls and phantoms step out of pictures hanging on its walls.
Based on the famous Pinturas Negras (Black Paintings) of 18th century Spanish artist Francisco Goya, this award-winning movement drama is a powerful satire on superstition and fanaticism. Eleven dancers and their life-size puppet doubles glide into Goya’s shadowy world to create a sensual, visual and sonic experience that unfolds like a ritual. An apt metaphor for our time in which the manipulative and powerful still dominate everyday life.
Based in Brussels, the Mossoux-Bonté company has been an important contributor to the Mime Festival since first appearing at the ICA in 1992.
"Features recurring themes of the art of the Mossoux-Bonté: mannequins, masks and doppelgangers. Levitation, duplication, dismemberment and illusions build and populate this organic and orgiastic succession of tableaux in a nightmarish and fascinating ritual”
La Libre Belgique"‘A masterly homage"
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Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté
mossoux-bonte.be (Belgium)Concept and choreography Nicole Mossoux
Direction Nicole Mossoux in collaboration with Patrick Bonté
Performance and artistic collaboration Juan Benítez, Dounia Depoorter, Thomas Dupal, Sébastien Chollet, Frauke Mariën, Fernando Martin, Isabelle Lamouline, Shantala Pèpe, Candy Saulnier, Fatou Traore, Martha Andrioli as the young girl
Puppetry, costumes and scenography Natacha Belova
Vocal design Jean Fürst
Sound design Thomas Turine
Light Patrick Bonté
Make-up and wigs Rebecca Flores-Martinez
Sound technician Fred Miclet
Light technician Jean-Jacques Deneumoustier
Stage management Céline Pagniez
Production Mossoux-Bonté Company, in coproduction with Charleroi Danse – Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Belgique, La Briqueterie - CDCN du Val-de-Marne, Le Théâtre de Rungis, La Coop asbl, Shelterprod.
With support from Théâtre de Liège, Théâtre de Châtillon, Taxshelter.be, ING, the Federal Belgium Government Tax-Shelter, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, dance department and from Wallonie-Bruxelles International.