Story of a Rabbit

Synopsis

Here one minute, gone the next... When Hugh finds his neighbour’s rabbit lying dead in his garden, the only sensible thing to do is to put it in a box. But it doesn’t fit. As he puzzles over what to do with the body he starts to wonder how much of life disappears once we die. A comic and curiously uplifting new show celebrating the complexities of death.

Our Review:

6 May 2008

It takes nerve as well as skill to make a show about death into an entertainment. But that’s just what performance artist Hugh Hughes, under the aegis of the movement-based Hoipolloi theatre company has done. There are two deaths with which we are concerned, one human and one animal. The animal one is (but only apparently) the one which takes precedence.

This is a multi-media show with props, projections and musical sound effects as well as a certain amount of (gently induced) audience participation. Two dates link the stories and the apparently random reflections which arise from them – August 1995 and April 2001.

In August 1995 the narrator was asked to look after a neighbour’s children’s pet rabbit while they are on holiday. The rabbit died, for no particular reason. Rabbits do that. In April 2001, he was woken by a telephone call from his brother. It was to tell him that their father had died suddenly, of a heart attack while winding the church clock. People do th...

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Latest User Review

Gareth James - 7 May 2008:

This was a highlight of Edinburgh 2007. It's completely different from the terific 'Floating' which preceeded it - more poignant and moving, but still sparklingly original and deeply satisfying....

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