Text, performance & set: Paolo Cardona
Direction: Isabelle Hervouët
Light: Nicolas Le Bodic
Video: Christophe Loiseau
Music: Fabrizio Cenci
Software: Benoît Fincker
Length: 45 Min.
Age: 3-14

Fri, April 24 - 6.30 PM
Sat, April 25 - 11.00 AM & 3.00 PM
GRIPS Podewil
Fantasy language

A man lies on the ground and looks around in amazement. A small town slowly grows up around the outlines of his shadow. Who are the tiny beings who are constructing it? The man tries to make contact in a fantasy language and accustom himself to his new homeland full of strange sizes and proportions. He gradually begins to shape his environment and even makes friends with his shadow. But his homesickness prevails. The man wants to go home.

SWIFT! is inspired by Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”. It takes the audience on an adventurous journey into a land of unknown things. Here poetry meets technology: projections, light and shade create a kingdom full of colours and unexpected perspectives.

SKAPPA! & associés is a theatre group set up in 1998 by Paolo Cardona and Isabelle Hervouët. The two artists work on productions suitable for all ages. Both children and their accompanying adults are fascinated by them. Since they began work, SKAPPA! has aimed at creating bridges between visual/digital and the performing arts. At the centre of their rehearsal process are the different uses of imagery.

We thank the Festival “Petits es Grands” in Nantes for recommending us this production within the german-french guest performance exchange “Carte Blanche”.

http://www.skappa.org

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