2000 Ft / Student: 1500 Ft, Trafó Season Ticket is valid!
POST SHOW DISCUSSION!
On Friday, 4th January after the performance Stephen Mottram presents the functioning of his puppets, then Zoltán Bodnár puppeteer will talk to him about his work, his puppets, about art, and his life. The talk will be in English with Hungarian translation. We kindly await everyone!
Stephen Mottram in a workshop:
Life’s most ancient truths made theatre: no-one watching can break away from its magical rhythm. The Oceans of Organillo: is it the ancient sea? Or perhaps a mother’s womb? A man and a woman cross the water whilst, at the same time, a variety of strange creatures burst into life all around – is that an octopus over there, or perhaps a female fallopian tube? Stephen Mottram tells the story of the origin of life elegantly, sexily and very deeply. Artist, craftsman and puppeteer Stephen Mottram has developed a unique theatre language which exploits the relationship between electro-acoustic music–this time by Sebastian Castagna for an organillo -and the movement-image.
The performance is recommended for anyone above age 14, and it’s also an ideal family programme!
Stephen Mottram's latest creation fuses animation with music and the visual arts. Puppets, automata and illusion are layered together to produce a haunting, sensual journey into primordial waters - a fertile, amniotic world where things wriggle and reproduce. As with his previous, acclaimed shows, In Suspension and The Seed Carriers, this new work features an original soundscore. Inspired by the sound of the organillo - a small South American mechanical street organ, the music by Argentine composer Sebastian Castagna was specially commissioned in collaboration with the Oxford Festival of Contemporary Music.
'Mottram takes the art of puppetry to a level of sophistication which makes you gasp with the cleverness of it, yet he also has a feel for the potent simplicity of this ancient form of theatre that touches on the mystical'. INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Director: Deana Rankin
Composer: Seabastian Castagna
Lightning and sound performed by: James Lewis
Scene design: Stephen Mottram
Light design: Ken Parry
With the support of:
Southern Arts, Oxford Contemporary Music Festival, Pegasus Theatre, Oxford
