Tuesday 20 July at 7.30pm and Wednesday 21 July 7.30pm
How would you tell a dream?
Strindberg's answer is a blend of memories, inventions and absurdities, where characters merge, duplicate, evaporate and time and space do not exist; everything becomes possible.
KinkyFish takes Strindberg's ideas further. Devised and presented in London in 2009, this adaptation of A Dream Play is surreal storytelling at its best, as nine actors, always present on stage, constantly transform to take the audience along the dream's journey. Locations, and even languages, change without rhyme or reason and a locked door becomes an obsessively recurrent image.
In A Dream Play KinkyFish breaks free of traditional techniques, drawing on the performance style of Viewpoints where the focus is on physicality, lighting and sound, empowering the viewer to experience the show rather than simply observe it. In the play, written in 1901, Agnes, daughter of the gods, is sent down to Earth to see if life really is as difficult as people make it out to be. With no more than a rainbow of scarves as their props the performers seamlessly swap, contort and evolve from people to buildings, breaking down the audience's preconceived notions of life... like in a dream.
KinkyFish, established in London in 2008, focuses on projects challenging the perception of the audience and the norms of conventional theatre.
