Stephen Mottram's latest creation fuses animation with music and the visual arts. Puppets, automata and illusion are layered together to produce a haunting, sensual journey into primordial waters - a fertile, amniotic world where things wriggle and reproduce. As with his previous, acclaimed shows, In Suspension and The Seed Carriers, this new work features an original soundscore. Inspired by the sound of the organillo - a small South American mechanical street organ, the music by Argentine composer Sebastian Castagna was specially commissioned in collaboration with the Oxford Festival of Contemporary Music.
'Mottram takes the art of puppetry to a level of sophistication which makes you gasp with the cleverness of it, yet he also has a feel for the potent simplicity of this ancient form of theatre that touches on the mystical'. INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Runs approx 55 mins
ICA
Theatre
Fri 26 - Sun 28 January
Fri - Sat 8pm,
Sun 4pm
Box Office
020 7930 3647 £10.50
(£8 concs)
email booking tickets@ica.org.uk