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A beautiful new work on loss and hope, brought to Welsh stage by We Made This, Co-Produced by Pontardawe Arts Centre |
Developed o ver the last two years, Light Waves Dark Skies tells the story of a family trying to get to grips with the loss of their child. A mother who campaigns against light pollution and tells children about the stars, and a father who used to be a lifeboat man until the sea took his son, have run inland to escape the memories the waves stir. Gradually they've been piecing their life back together until their fragile existence is disrupted by a blast from the past.Beautiful, m oving, tragic and uplifting, Light Waves Dark Skies finds beauty in the everyday and explores our love of the night sky and the sea. We Made This is an evolving company of theatre makers, whose name makes explicit the collaborative nature of our process, so whilst we have a designer, producer, actor or director – you might equally find any of those in a room improvising. Light Waves Dark Skies, will be directed by former National Theatre Wales Creative Associate (2011-13) and Camden People’s Theatre Artistic Director (2006-2011), Matt Ball, who explains the inspiration behind the show and how it was made: “Light Waves Dark Skies began when I read a short story by Gabrielle García Márquez nearly twenty years ago – about two boys who take the sentence “Light is like water” literally and learn to sail a boat on light. I’d been trying for years to think of how to stage this story – then I realised it wasn’t the story that was interesting but the creative leap where the imagined becomes real. So rather than telling someone else's story we began to explore and try to find the story we wanted to tell, something that spoke to us about our world. For me, one of the important aspects of the way we make work, is that it’s not about my idea, or a writer's idea, but about the ideas of a group of people. Light Waves Dark Skies, is a product of the collective who made it – and each ideas sparks another thought in someone else – till eventually we’ve gone somewhere that none of us could have imaged on our own, but with the power of our combined imaginations anything is possible.” Further information can be found at www.wemadethis.org.uk |
| We Made This web site: www.wemadethis.org.uk |
| Nia Skyrme e-mail: niaskyrme@gmail.com |
Thursday, November 3, 2016 |
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