In a couple of days, Mayfest, Bristol's Festival of contemporary theatre begins, and there are a couple of creative technology performances you might want to check out:
My World Is Empty Without You by Duncan Speakman - Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 May
What happens when everyone in the city is listening to the same song? Wearing headphones, the audience travels across the city, an immersive soundtrack filling their ears, turning the world around into a poignant and personal cinema.As strangers drift past you and events unfold it becomes harder to separate the staged and the real.
Exploring ideas of social disconnection in the age of the iPod; part love song, part theatre … My World is Empty Without You will leave marks in your heart.
My World is Empty Without You is a development of Duncan Speakman’s piece of the same name shown at Mayfest 2008. Commissioned by Mayfest, supported by Arnolfini and developed at the Pervasive Media Studio.
Kellerman by imitating the dog, Monday 11th – Wednesday 13th May, Bristol Old Vic Theatre Royal, 8pm
Combining film, animation and live action, imitating the dog are one of the UK’s most original and innovative performance theatre companies.
Diagnosed as delusional, Harry is in a hospital where he’s struggling to come to terms with a tragedy that nobody believes has taken place. His notebooks are filled with calculations that attempt to show the past can be manipulated and the future predicted. Can he prove everyone wrong by changing the order of events that led to the disappearance of everything he loved? Kellerman is a gothic tale of obsessive desire, demonic doctors and monstrous nurses, a story that explores how meddling with the past can have tragic consequences and how the search for origins can lead to the mind’s disintegration.
The production has a magnificent two-storey set designed by Laura Hopkins which incorporates a revolving stage, flying harnesses, moving masks and stunning back and front projections by Simon Wainwright.
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