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Nobel Prize winner Schrödinger’s Box influences stage production |
In 1933 Erwin Schrödinger won the Nobel Prize for his contribution to Quantum Mechanics. He theorised a box in which a cat exists as living and dead at the same time. In 1998 the theatre company Reckless Sleepers built that box – and now over a decade later, they are climbing back inside to perform Schrödinger at Sherman Theatre on 11 & 12 September as part of the World Stage Design event being held in Cardiff. In one of the company's most celebrated performance pieces the impossible is probable: truth and illusion are inseparable. Laws are made, bent, then broken. It's a visually mesmerising performance that sways between question and answer, chaos and order, what we can measure and what we can't. On stage is a box with hatches and doors. It can be the box where the cat is locked up or an experimental chamber. The chamber is populated by a group of experimenters / artists, trying to conduct research into immeasurable theories. Schrödinger is about thought experiments, cats, René Magritte, love, time, mathematics, observations, truth lies and alcohol. Founded in Nottingham in 1989, Anglo-Belgian company Reckless Sleepers is a creative organisation dedicated to the production, presentation and development of innovative and experimental visual art and performance. Mole Wetherell, Artistic Director, says “I couldn’t leave the project Schrödinger alone over the past 10 years we have looked at the project again and again, five years after the last performance of Schrödinger’s Box we spent two weeks re-examining the piece, looking for holes or gaps in the structure, reworking the processes that we’d used, this research ultimately led to the publication Trial, which itself reignited interest in the performance, and so 5 years after the launch of Trial we present the piece again.” “To call it a remake would be wrong – that’s impossible the new version Schrödinger works with a different group of artists – Reckless Sleepers have changed the way in which they perform – the structure – the box the 6th performer as it is called is a constant – the doors, hatches, walls exits and entrances are in the same place. But the people who occupy it will have changed – like the spaces that we perform it in, the cities that we visit will have gone through a transformation. Buildings have been altered or upgraded some of the places that we originally presented the project in no longer exists, have moved or changed their name but the central themes of this performance are still resonant – we play with time and memory – the memory of what you just saw and for some the memory of what happened over 10 years ago.” “I get asked a lot why, why are we restaging this old piece? The list of reasons increases, as work on this new version progresses, on the top of the list is that I believe that it is a good piece of work that I am proud of being one of the artists that were involved in its conception.” Schrödinger will be performed as part of the World Stage Design 2013, which will be visiting Cardiff and the UK for the first time. The World Stage Design 2013 is a celebration of international performance design from the world of theatre, opera and dance. Schrödinger is at Sherman Theatre from 11 & 12 September, 7.30pm. Suitable for ages 16+. For further information and tickets please contact Sherman Theatre Ticket Office on 029 2064 6900 or visit www.shermancymru.co.uk |
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