Enigmatic and ethereal, the four Station Stories curated and presented by Sven Werner for Theatre Cryptic at a trio of railway stations, worm their way into the traveller’s imagination.
The result is a tiny experience – just two images, and four stories lasting only three or four minutes each. Yet the stories themselves are so surreal and melancholy, so completely out of time, that they immediately reach into a deep place in the imagination, beautiful, unsettling, hard to forget.
On paper, Homecoming: Station Stories ticks a lot of boxes for me – I’m not ashamed to admit my all-encompassing love for trains, Victoriana, and story-telling – but sadly the installation failed to move me.
Interview: Station Stories creator Sven Warner explains his latest installation storytelling project
Station Stories from Cryptic (in association with ScotRail)
On Tour, from Wednesday November 26, 2014, until Saturday November 29, 2014. At Glasgow Queen Street Station..
On Tour, from Wednesday December 3, 2014, until Saturday December 6, 2014. At Aberdeen Train Station.
On Tour, from Wednesday December 10, 2014, until Saturday December 13, 2014. At Waverley Station..
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