Manipulate Festival: After Metamorphosis
Through intense physicality, visual theatre, micro-cinema, puppetry, vocals, and rumbling, seismic soundscapes, AFTER METAMORPHOSIS conjures a world of insects and humans coexisting.
About Manipulate Festival: After Metamorphosis
| 29th January 2022 | |
| 4pm | |
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The Studio Edinburgh The Studio 22 Potterrow, Edinburgh South EH8 9BL |
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| £12 / £10 | |
| Event organiser/part of Manipulate Festival | |
| Visit the event website here | |
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Is Gregor Samsa a bug wishing he was a man or a man wishing he was a bug?
AFTER METAMORPHOSIS is a high-octane, visceral reworking of Kafka’s classic tale that weaponizes the surrealism of the original text into a wild rumpus; a satire of conformity.
In a world of political and ecological turmoil, where unfathomably large corporations control everything and our food supply chain is in jeopardy, are we just workers for the hive? Are we all Gregor Samsa?
Through intense physicality, visual theatre, micro-cinema, puppetry, vocals, and rumbling, seismic soundscapes, AFTER METAMORPHOSIS conjures a world of insects and humans coexisting. Are we really that different? As intense and brooding as it is playful and mischievous, AFTER METAMORPHOSIS peers through the eyes of insects to both lampoon and celebrate humanity, scuttling — mandibles a whir — around themes of imposter syndrome, identity, capitalism, the hive mind, and our relationship with the environment and ecosystem.
Devised and performed by physical theatre artist Lewis Sherlock (Oceanallover, LARDS) and performance writer Ali Maloney (Caledonian Gothic, Ratcatcher, Hydronomicon). The combination of their respective practices — experiments with clowning, bouffon, butoh, and choral; dark, abstract rap burlesques and the physicality of voice — lends AFTER METAMORPHOSIS its potent palette.
Age 16+
Image credits: Ali Maloney & Elly White
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