Go Figure: Solace - Numen Company (DE)
SOLACE is a visual theater performance without words, about a boy who is stuck in a dark and unknown place. He is surrounded by characters that he feels but cannot see. Are they his protectors or his enemies?
It is evening, and the nameless boy is huddled under a stump. Gradually, he explores the desolate, almost dreamy landscape he finds himself in. He tries to overcome his fear and loneliness, and - not least - to find solace.
SOLACE means "comfort" and deals with human loneliness and how we can find strength and courage in ourselves and in the environment around us. People, animals, imaginary creatures or even an object can give us comfort when we feel lonely.
Since this is a performance without words, your own imagination will determine how you experience the story. Are you comforted or need to be comforted when the performance is over?
Solace explores the human ability to survive disasters, war, exile and daily trauma. A struggle that connects what reason separates: life and death, reality and fantasy, love and indifference, rage and melancholy.
Solace comes from the Latin "sōlātium" meaning comfort or relief. Here we meet a puppeteer and a dancer who are bound together by memories, in a harsh desert-like landscape. A cage of memories where past and present collide in this performance inspired by Japanese Butoh theater.
Tibo Gebert is an award-winning contemporary artist, puppeteer and artistic director of Numen Company. Gebert is internationally renowned for his beautiful productions and fabulous puppetry.
Age: 14+
Language: No speech
Duration 55 min (no break)
Director, performer, concept, puppets, set design and costumes: Tibo Gebert
Dancer: Marine Chesnais/ Mélanie Cholet/ Gabriel Hermand-Priquet
Composer/music: Hahn Rowe
Lighting design: Jérôme Houlès
Artistic collaborator, Outside eye: Gabriel Hermand-Priquet
Dramaturgical consultant: Ruth Mariën
Photo: Susana Neves
Figurteatret I Nordland: Geir-Ove Andersen, Preben Faye-Schjøll, Ing Randi Johansen, Tim Lucassen, Jan Erik Skarby and Anne Sørfjell
Numen Company Team in Germany:
Dramaturgical consultants: Geeske Otten and Meriam Bousselmi
Costumes: Sonia Albartus and Tibo Gebert
Producer , Germany: Sophie Galibert
Supporting partners: Silvia Brendenal; Kathrin Rachow
Tibo Gebert Collaborators:
Solace is produced by Numen Company in collaboration with Figurteatret i Nordland and in co-production with TJP - Centre dramatique national d'Alsace; Schaubude Berlin; Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes Charleville-Mézières; Figurteatret i Nordland; CCPOOloron Sainte Marie; Le Manège de Reims- Scène Nationale; T-Werk Potsdam; Le théâtre des 4 Saisons, Gradignan; Fonds Transfabrik - French-German fund for Performing Arts
Supported by Figurteatret i Nordland/ Nordland Fylkeskommune-Scene 8; Centre de la marionnette de Tournai (Belgium); Mouffetard - Théâtre des arts de la marionnettes (France)
Monday, June 6, 2022
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