What I Heard About the World
From: Wednesday, 13th October 2010
To: Saturday, 30 October 2010
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Synopsis
In What I Heard About The World, Sheffield based Third Angel and Lisboa's mala voadora attempt to map a spherical planet onto a (very big) flat piece of paper. The three narrators set out to catalogue every country, to share stories and name names, in a show that wonders what future we are making for ourselves. Throughout 2010, Third Angel and mala voadora are collected stories from around the world.
Our Review:
Ruth Kilner - 19 October 2010
What I Heard About The World is a collaboration between Sheffield based Third Angel Theatre company and Portuguese Malo Voadora. The script is based entirely on interviews with participants across the globe sharing their experiences, thoughts and reflections about the world we live in.
Verbatim or documentary theatre can be a difficult genre to master, as interview transcripts can make for a dull, monotonous performance if they’re not dramatically enhanced by the writer.
This production works well, on the whole, in that the subject matter is both shocking and captivating. However, without the animated, talented cast of three, the jackanory-style storytelling narrative could be tedious. Chris Thorpe provides a musical soundtrack throughout with song and electric guitar. This creates atmosphere and, at times, heartbreaking antithesis; such as his performance of a karaoke love song during a re-enactment of a massacre.
The subject matter is both...
Creative
Third Angel (Producer)
mala voadora (Producer)
Sheffield Theatres (Producer)
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