| Night Chronicles by Heledd Bianchi |
| First presented in 2005 by Theatr Bwcibo |
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synopsis: “As we sleep the dream warrior and goddess, Hecate comes to us and uses her magical powers to awaken our souls and sharpen our senses. “ Karl Jung believed a dream content uses symbolic language. He proposed that a dream expresses collective racial unconscious memories and instincts shared by all people. These are basic ideas that are themselves symbols. These include the hero, monster, mother, father, mandala, sacrifice and the mask. Jung also believed that dreams, when correctly interpreted could accurately predict the success or failure in the way that mankind succeeds or fails in life Sigmund Freud believed that dreams worked on two levels. A straight-forward level showed events in dreams as remembered. However, in the latent level objects and actions dreams symbolize sexual and aggressive feelings and ideas that are repressed. The Babylonians divided dreams into two categories. They believed good dreams were sent by the Gods and bad dreams were sent by demons. The Egyptians believed that the Gods showed themselves in dreams. Many North American Indian tribes believed that dreams revealed the hidden wishes of the soul. In a fast moving technological, society in which mankind is swept along like a hurricane, most people are increasingly beginning to feel that they don’t have the time or enough self confidence anymore to rely on their intuitive instincts or individual aptitude when making decisions. People rely more on other people they term as “experts” to make decisions for them, e.g self help groups, counsellors, politicians. It follows therefore that (taking it to the extreme) such “nannying” might pose a threat to that “shared collective racial unconscious memories” which Jung suggests we share as human beings and we are all destined therefore to live like “lost souls” in a world such as George Orwell prophesised in his novel “1984” Night Chronicles, through Cabaret, elements of Greek Theatre and Theatre of The Absurd will take us into the realms of dreamtime where Hecate, the Goddess of dreams nets this “shared collective racial unconscious memories”. In Hecate’s kingdom there are no boundaries and all souls awake. This one-woman show, performed by Heledd Bianchi will appeal to a wide audience as it deals with themes which are timeless and universal, i.e where the forces of darkenss and light and good and evil battle against each other. But who will win? |
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