Critically acclaimed theatre company Poorboy, creators of Chinese Whispers, Falling and Birds and Other Things, bring their latest audio-promenade Blood and Roses to this year's Edinburgh Festival. Read more …
If the situation is desperate enough then a mother will eat her young, said Baba Yaga ... Battle lines are drawn across 400 years between Scotland and Russia as two families prepare for a wedding.
This uplifting audio play leads audiences through the streets and hidden spaces of Edinburgh, as Poorboy bring alive their imaginative world of sinister fairy tales and the realities of family life, through stories, music and soundscape.
At first it seems as if there might be over-many strands in writer/director Sandy Thomson’s epic tapestry. But gradually, as voices weave to and fro across history and continents – the modern love story links Scotland and Russia – you gain a sense of the family ties and how the old stories of witches, magic horses and true love have roots in our own emotions and experiences.
(Performed) with a tenderness and insight that shifts the heart.
Beautifully life-affirming...an exquisit piece of writing.
Couched in a cinematographic sound design and punctuated by Alex Attwood’s haunting music, the emotions of all these women run riot, to the bemusement of their men, before all come together in an emotionally-charged conclusion that will stay with you long after leaving the dramatic setting of the final scene.
Jen Robson's work seen in Blood and Roses at Tron Theatre
St George's West, Edinburgh from Sunday August 7, 2011, until Saturday August 27, 2011. More info: http://www.remarkable-arts-ltd.com/
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