Fabrik
Petrified Skin

Devised and performed by Benno Voorham and Wolfgang Hoffmann.
Music: Shostakovich

Made shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Petrified Skin is the story of two former antagonists, victims of Cold War apartheid and separated by a hideous material obstacle. Breaking through brick and thought barriers, overcoming suspicions and prejudices, the two reach out to embrace each other in a friendship without fear. Movement, music and visual projection combine in a powerful work of physical theatre, its stark and universal message today more relevant than ever.

Scotsman Fringe First winner in 1999 for Hopeless Games (in collaboration with St.Petersburg's DO Theatre), Fabrik was literally born from the wreckage of the Berlin wall - its founders selling chunks of it to finance their theatre dreams.

‘Exuberant physicality underpinned by practised precision, and there's also gentle humour as well as social comment’. The Herald

‘Sometimes in the theatre simpler ideas produce better results. That is the case here. What I love about this performance is its unaffected honesty - and the sheer sweat of it’. The Guardian

Runs approx 60 mins

Supported by the Goethe-Institut London

ICA: Sun 13-Tue 15 Jan 8pm
£11.00 (£8 concs) inc day membership
020 7930 3647
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