Les Ateliers du Spectacle (FR)
A Distances UK Premiere
ICA Theatre >
Thu 28 > Sun 31 Jan
Thu – Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm
Meet the Artists Fri 29 Jan
Runs approx 80 mins/no interval
£14 (£12 concs)
Booking opens 12 Nov >
‘Is it a show or a dream? It’s both and more and unlike anything you’ve seen before. They are engineers of art and genius’.
La Croix
‘Astonishing, poetic and completely original’.
Il Messagero
From France, extraordinary animation theatre in seven short episodes, mysterious, unconventional and entertainingly quirky. A Distances is a micro-epic for two performers, shadows, puppets, objects, sounds, imagination and wonderful, clanking Heath-Robinson machinery.
From the same planet as Faulty Optic, Jan Svankmejer and the Brothers Quay, Jean-Pierre Larroche’s Ateliers du Spectacle have been devising boundary-breaking visual theatre for more than twenty years.
A Distances won the Jury prize for Most Original Production at the 2009 Valladolid Festival, Spain.
Directed by: Thierry Roisin
Performers: Jean-Pierre Larroche and Marion Lefevbre
photos © Brigitte Pougeoise
