Music for Theater
Egg
A Wire Apart
A Wire Apart
A Paper Doll Militia Production
Egg is an original aerial theatre production about fertility, sexuality and choice, telling the true story of a woman who gave her eggs to a friend to have a child.
Egg combines visual theatre and movement with a script written by Sarah, reflecting her own personal experience. Original music composed and performed by Bado Reti is interwoven with the show creating the soundscape within the story and the set. Animations detail the often-misunderstood internal world of a woman, while the aerial acrobatics energize the clear PVC plastic set. Egg follows both the medical side of the process and the complex legal and ethical implications of surrendering the rights to your genetically linked child.
A Wire Apart
A Wire Apart
A Wire Apart
A Paper Doll Militia Production
A dynamic exploration of the ways in which modern methods of communications affect us all, using dance, physicality, aerial acrobatics, tight-wire walking and original music.
Does the ability to communicate anytime, anyplace, really help us to connect? How much stress and tension do you feel at times because you’re expected to be constantly “connected”?Does instant connectivity help our attempts to make meaningful relationships with our surroundings and our fellow humans? Or does it reinforce feelings of isolation and inadequacy as we reflect upon and react to connections made and lost?
A Paper Doll Militia Production
Created by Sarah Bebe Holmes and Bado Reti
Choreography: Sarah Bebe Holmes
Original music and sound design: Bado Reti
Set and costume design: Christine Urquhart
Lighting design: George Tarbuck
Technician: Malcolm Rogan
Technical assistant: Joshua Baker
Photo by Christine Urquhart
"With choreography and beautiful original sound design and music, also by Bado Reti, the creators exhibit how dial up days may have proven, in hindsight, to be ones of curiosity, discovery and innocence, but the “DING!” of an Instagram notification short-circuiting our attention spans now makes us little more than marionettes manipulated by our own devices."
-Edinburgh Guide-
Arthropoda
A Wire Apart
Arthropoda
For over 200 years, humans have used lobster pots as a device to trap the creature after it crawls in to reach bait. The entrance to the pot never closes; it remains open, but once inside, the lobster just can’t find its way out again. Does it even recognise that it’s in a trap at all? Arthropoda is a show about how we identify our traps, and if we manage to do so, how we can find ways to escape them.
A world premiere from leading Scotland-based aerial theatre company Paper Doll Militia, this gripping and visually arresting piece of circus theatre tells of the unravelling of a relationship, entangled in the psychological pitfalls of societal and systematic sexism.
The piece explores the way in which toxic and abusive dynamics can remain hidden to those experiencing them, when experienced amidst the complex mass of other relationship dynamics. Through an array of stunning visual theatre and circus techniques including cyr wheel, aerial theatre and hair hanging, Arthropoda navigates challenging questions about whether we can or should support a partner with dark and violent emotions, and how to identify when those emotions spill over into something altogether more toxic.
Production Credits:
Writer, Director and Co-Production Designer: Sarah Holmes
Mentor/Dramaturge: Clive Andrews
Co- Producers: Melanie Purdie and Nikki Kalkman
Musical Director and Musician: Bado Reti
Lighting Designer: George Tarbuck
Co-Production Designer: Ingrid Scholes
Production Stage Manager: Grace Turner
Performers: Constanza Ruff and Lee Partridge
Musician: Joseph Weisberg
Graphic Designer: Kate George
Deputy Stage Manager: Lucy May Wilson
Image Credit: Colin Hattersley
https://theqr.co.uk/2023/02/04/review-arthropoda-manipulate-festival-traverse-1/