PHANTASMAGORIA at Theatre Works Tickets
About PHANTASMAGORIA at Theatre Works
What do you do when you find out your father tried to kill your mother?
a) Forgive him, move on and love him despite the fact? b) Erase him completely from your memory? or c) Employ a spirit medium and have a few words with him.
Briony chose option c) and this play is the result.
PHANTASMAGORIA explores the complex relationship between a woman and her violent father long after he has passed away. Briony unearths her father’s childhood experiences in Sri Lanka, his brutal World War 2 history in Burma, migration, alcoholism, and his family’s eventual escape from him. Using a lens of magic realism, the work plunges beneath a seemingly everyday domestic space to reveal family secrets, hauntings and complex emotional landscapes.
Travelling back and forth through time and space, PHANTASMAGORIA is a sensorial feast flavoured with grief, love, loss, absurdity, surprise and a generous dose of magic. Dynamic and sensitive performance, comedy, puppetry and evocative animated imagery give physical life to the liminal realm of ghosts and the unseen.
Run time
1hr 10min
Venue
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Age
Recommended age: 15+ Warning: adult themes and coarse language
Start date
2nd March, 2022
End date
12th March, 2022
More information about PHANTASMAGORIA at Theatre Works
"Beautiful storytelling... with puppets, projections and an original score that illustrates the continual contrast between fantasy and harsh reality." - Theatre Press on "THE DIVINATION AGENCY"
Written and Created by: Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman
Directed by: Cathy Hunt
Performers / Devisors: Meg Dunn, Elnaz Shehsgelani, Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman, Yuchen Wang
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