Roadmetal, Sweetbread
Where: Nottingham Arts Theatre, 12 George Street NOTTINGHAM NG1 3BE
Date(s): 24/10/06
Time(s): 7.30pm Mon 23 and Tues 24 October 2006
Cost: £6/£4 concessions To book, contact Nottingham Arts Theatre at 0115 947 6096 http://www.artstheatre.org.uk/index.php
Station House Opera’s remarkable Roadmetal, Sweetbread has toured all over the world to huge acclaim, each time especially recreated for the particular performance space. Combining live performance with synchronized film footage, every show is unique, each space viewed in a new light, as Station House Opera tantalises the audience and works its magic from a distance.
Occupying an alternative world which bears an uncanny resemblance to reality, a man and a woman compete for survival with their own life-size video images. Projected life-size onto a wall, the performers’ video personas vie with their live counterparts for attention and authenticity, regarding each other with conflicting emotions. Hidden motives, repressed impulses, covert violence and secret passions all become visible in this strange space which is part real, part intangible, part past and part present.
"A blistering good piece of work." The Guardian.
“One of the most inventive British theatre companies highlights the mismatches between our private thoughts and public behaviour.” The Scotsman.
"Roadmetal is a brilliant, unnerving, alternative reality, altogether too
close for comfort." The Daily Telegraph.
“Brilliant...viciously modern." The Independent.
Station House Opera was founded in 1980 by Julian Maynard Smith and since then it has developed into an internationally renowned performance company with a unique physical and visual style. Their monumental outdoor projects have been created for locations all over the world including the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage and Dresden’s historic Frauenkirche. Their new show The Other Is You, will open on 1 November, and is performed live over the internet between Brighton, Berlin and Groningen.
