Theatre in Wales

Michael Toppings

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synopsis:
Performed by Alex Alderton, Martin Belanger, Matt Cook, Tammy Forsythe, David Greenslade, Richard Lynch, Sharon Morgan, Marc Rees, Caroline Sabin, André Stitt.
Video artist: Nikki Forest

The House Project follows R.I.P.E.’s last Welsh-Canadian collaboration performance, RevolUn created by acclaimed Welsh interdisciplinary artist Marc Rees with choregrapher Benoit Lachambre in 2002. The House Project is a site-specific performance installation in which the text of a novel, “7 Rooms, a Prologue, a bridge and an afterward” by Michael Toppings is transcribed onto the walls, floors and décor of a domestic house. Each room is a different chapter of the novel. Each chapter is also re-interpreted live by a host of Wales’ most charismatic, innovative, diverse performers from film and television to radical performance art, sonic art and lap dancing. Also featuring guest artists from Canada Tammy Forsythe, Martin Belanger and Nikki Forest. Each night the audience is invited to enter the house and wander through this “labyrinthine walk-in novel”. First presented in Regina, Saskaetechewan in 2000 by Michael Toppings, Chapter in association with R.I.P.E./ Marc Rees is delighted to bring the first international re-location of this extraordinary performance to Cardiff.
 
“The House Project resides in and expands on previous metaphors or domestic space. Unlike Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, there are few references to domestic arthcitecture as an intimate and safe haven: this house is haunted. The House Project takes as its boarders late 20th century pain, desire and Queer polemics to unpack memory and shake the foundations. These are stories for the whole family – for the whole neighbourhood – to read and remember.” Joanne Bristol, Crossovers (Canada).