200Ks
Life
can
be measured in kilometres per hour.
We’ve moved from a top speed of 30 to breaking the sound
barrier in less
than a century. Not
too many generations
ago, people lived a whole life within a two hundred k radius.
Silver Strings
A
railway
track, with the audience seated in an open cart.
The track leads into a large, old industrial
building, and all that can be seen is a single puppeteer operating a
human-like
marionette. Silver
string lines run from
above the puppeteers, controlling them, lifting them away from the
earth’s
surface. But who is
in control of these
strings? The humans
operate the puppets
but are they puppets themselves?
The
creative team of Silver Strings,
led by Theresa O'Connor, L'hibou Hornung (NZ) and Darren Willmott
brings together a combination of disciplines and theatre backgrounds to
develop a new theatre work that can both be produced as a large-scale
production and
then reworked into a touring production.
Mudlark is very pleased indeed to be acting as a supporting organisation for this bold and large-scale work.
Artist
Training opportunities
can be found here.