Station House Opera
dal 3/12/2001 al 22/12/2001
Segnalato da
3/12/2001
Station House Opera
South London Gallery SLG, London
SLG Live Art. Internationally celebrated for its visionary live art events, Station House Opera takes over the South London Gallery this December with Mare's Nest, its first new work in three years. A development from the company's enormously successful Roadmetal Sweetbread, Mare's Nest is an intriguing mix of filmed and live action involving four performers (Katye Coe, Susannah Hart, Julian Maynard Smith and Mem Morrison) and their life-size video doubles.
SLG Live Art
outstanding (The Glasgow Herald)
strikingly dynamic, confusing, funny and alarming (Frieze)
tremendously witty, faintly sinister and rather disturbing (The Guardian)
brilliant, viciously modern (The Independent)
Internationally celebrated for its visionary live art events, Station House
Opera takes over the South London Gallery this December with Mare's Nest, its
first new work in three years. A development from the company's enormously
successful Roadmetal Sweetbread, Mare's Nest is an intriguing mix of filmed and
live action involving four performers (Katye Coe, Susannah Hart, Julian Maynard
Smith and Mem Morrison) and their life-size video doubles.
A hoarding-like structure occupies the centre of the Gallery space and images
projected onto either side of it present views into another world.
The four performers occupy this half-physical, half-virtual world, alternating
between real and imaginary space. Often they occupy both at once, a live
performer being shadowed by a video double. Each of these characters has
multiple existences, not only because each person has their own idea about who
the others are, but also because they hold different ideas about who they are
themselves.
Mare's Nest is a play about double, triple and quadruple lives.
It displaces
time, offering a view into the near future, where everyday extensions of
ourselves will go far beyond the telephone, e-mail, video and internet.
Station House Opera, founded in 1980, is internationally renowned as a
performance company with a unique physical and visual style.
Its work varies
enormously in scale, appearance and location, and uses spectacle to explore the
intimate relationship between people and the environments they inhabit.
Mare's
Nest is co-produced by Artsadmin and La Batie Festival, Geneva and has received
funding from the Arts Council of England, London Arts and the British Council.
Performance times and booking information
Doors open at 7.15pm and a pay bar will be open before each performance
Performances start promptly at 8pm and last for 1 hour and 15 minutes
Performances every evening except Mondays when the Gallery will be closed
Tickets cost £10, £8 concessions
Advance booking is essential, to book, contact the Royal Festival Hall ticket
office on:
T: 020 7960 4242
F: 020 7921 0821
E: boxoffice@rfh.org.uk
South London Gallery
65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH
Transport: Oval or Victoria tube then 36 bus or Elephant & Castle then 12 or 171
bus. From Tate Modern, take 171 bus from Waterloo Road
British Rail Peckham Rye
Free parking in adjacent side streets