3-13 Aug at 9:00 pm
Summerhall (venue 26), Main Hall / 1 Summerhall (EH9 1PL)
Tickets: £13/£11 Preview: 3 Aug at 9:00 pm / £7
Box office: 0845 874 3001
Language: Polish with English subtitles
Duration: 77 min
Age restrictions: 12+
Images from Puppet. The Book of Splendor
Inspired by Tadeusz Kantor's work and what he has termed the Theatre of Death, neTTheatre's director Paweł Passini's presents a vibrant world of effigies, golems, and mannequins, as seen by cabalists. Welcome to the Clinic of Dreams!
As always in Passini's theatre performances, live music and visual projections accompany the actors in their exploration of the human condition. neTTheatre, the first Internet theatre in the world and a winner of the Herald's Angel and Total Theatre Awards, presents its plays simultaneously in the virtual world of the internet, and physically, in real life.
The work of Tadeusz Kantor, much like the texts by Bruno Schulz, reveals an archipelago of figures where the zone of death, as Kantor called it has an unexpected neighbour - childhood. Encounters with both the imaginary and the real lead to moments of madness, to fear and joy, to euphoria and despair, and to a pulsating world seen by the Kabbalah master’s eyes. The Book of Splendour (Sefer ha-Zohar) is one of the key texts of Jewish mysticism. This beautiful text teaches us a lesson of understanding the worl: the people and objects surrounding us, the global and intimate events which happen to us – they are all part of the Conversation between God and Man.
A Younger Theatre's Jake Orr reveals in his review of the piece:
(...) visual spectacle, coupled with the sound and video work, that really gets the heart pumping. A particular moment where the artist becomes a Jesus-like figure climbing a mountain, with distorted vocals, repeated gestures from performers and a Polish text delivered sent goosebumps through me. I can’t pinpoint what it was within this, but something affected me and I didn’t want to let go of this feeling. A spectacle – in many ways a masterpiece – with layer after layer built upon Kantor’s ideas and neTTheatre’s own creative flare