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Human nature can be destructive. Sometimes emotions can be in conflict – between a couple and even in yourself. A recently returned soldier meets a girl he used to know. Their meeting is a torment to them both in different ways. Love and rejection; desire and shame; hope and regret.

If society has a clear distinction between good and bad, right and wrong, is the separation as marked in the human heart?

With aerial cocoon, sound, space, storytelling and physical theatre, we see the reality of abuse, grief, guilt and forgiveness.

Commissioned by Dancin’ Oxford and Pegasus.

Devising Performers
Tanner Efinger
Anja Meinhardt

Film Maker & Animator
Tom Wilkinson

Writer
May Olivier

Composer & Sound Designer
Flannery Cunningham

Dramaturg
Euton Daley

Artistic Director
Anja Meinhardt

“Provocative piece”

Provocative piece which refused a simple black and white view.

Ana Barbour (Oxford Dance Writers)

“moving and highly inventive”

“I found it both moving and highly inventive. I really liked the use of the white cocoon and the excellent photographic images and symbols. I’m all for brevity and punch, and the piece had both!”

Audience member at Mark of Cain

“I wish there was more”

“Our emotions were being moved using a wide spectrum – joy, fear, disgust, anger, happiness, hope, puzzlement. It never left me detached. I wish there was more to even better understand the characters.”

Audience member at Mark of Cain

“visceral and emotionally embodied”

“I’m really glad it wasn’t too black and white, too focused on right and wrong in its message, despite tackling obviously uncomfortable material. It was visceral and emotionally embodied. There was also very skilful dancing and physical theatre and really good crafting of the elements of light, projection and storytelling.”

Audience member at Mark of Cain

Dates

24 January 2015 – Pegasus, Oxford (Scratch Night)

27 & 28 February 2015 – Pegasus, Oxford (Moving with the Times)

For Promoters

Would you be interested in working with us to develop this piece into a triptych? We’re looking for artistic and research partners to take the project further.

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