Critically acclaimed physical dance-theatre company Gecko make a debut visit to the Festival Theatre with an intimate, funny and revealing exploration of what it means to care. Read more …
Welcome to Gecko’s Institute, where forgotten stories and recycled memories pour out of filing cabinets and endless corridors. Four gripping journeys collide in an extraordinary world of breathtaking movement and exquisite storytelling.
Martin longs for one more breath with Margaret. Daniel climbs higher and higher over a towering world but will he fulfil his ambition? Stuck in this beguiling maze of officialdom they lurch from one outrageous task to another. But who is giving the orders?
Gecko has plunged into what it means to care. They have spoken to their elders, colleagues and friends, witnessed those on the edges of society, and looked at the world around them. For two years they have honed and crafted INSTITUTE - an intimate dissection of the way we nurture and care for ourselves and each other.
Join them on this spectacularly inventive and deliciously surprising journey.
In an absorbing and magnetising production that confuses as much as it challenges, INSTITUTE is not a show that you’re ever likely to forget.
The Life of a Gecko
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh from Friday October 24, 2014, until Saturday October 25, 2014. More info: http://www.edtheatres.com/festival