Water

Synopsis

Imagine you looked out of the window one morning and saw jellyfish. No birds fluttering, just a sky full of gelatinous animals. Every now and then a shark or tuna glides noiselessly past. And everywhere... water. With the strange beauty of a dream, Water inter-cuts between powerful individual stories, exploring man’s desire to push himself to the limits in an increasingly unstable world. In Canada two half brothers clash over the legacy of their dead father. In Germany a young female special advisor tries to push through a deal at a political summit, whilst in Mexico a young Englishman prepares to dive the deepest freshwater cave in the world. Filter is renowned for its distinctive theatrical style that exposes the workings of a production - video is mixed onstage and sound is produced live by a musician and the performers to create a unique, ‘live chemistry’ experience for audiences.

Our Review:

Andrew Girvan - 4 February 2011

Another minimalist industrial stage, another play interweaving domestic narratives with the political implications of fighting climate change. Arriving shortly after the National's recently opened Greenland, theatre company Filter and director David Farr's collaboration is everything that production strives to be but misses - animated, dynamic with storytelling at the very heart of the piece.

With two very different brothers thrust together to deal with the death of their father - a pioneering marine biologist - we see yet another fictitious forward-looking scientist portrayed on stage, vindicated 30 years on by the world waking up to the problems of global warming. Ferdy Roberts gives a compelling performance as both the eloquent academic and the reclusive son he marginalised.

Victoria Moseley plays a career politician facing the bureaucratic wrangling of climate change negotiations, whilst simultaneously walking the political tightrope of coalition polit...

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