Image: Tommy Ga-Ken WanImagine you have discovered a place deep underground where hundreds of girl’s voices have been held for years…
Would you like to get to know some of the voices?
Would you like to know what happened?
And if you could return the voice to its rightful owner, would you?
Catherine Wheels will transform a series of rooms in the basement of Edinburgh’s Summerhall in to the darkly mysterious Voice Facility. This is the first time the public have been allowed into The Voice Facility and it may be the last…
The immersive experience of this vocal version of Stepford Wives can be a little scary but not half as scary as the fact of real people, particularly women, being silenced.
Everything a piece of theatre should be: not just funny, tense and alarming, but politically engaged, angry and inspirational.
This just might be the most creative, passionate and insightful production a Scottish theatre company has produced in years.
If the slightly predictable text often seems to have been added as an afterthought to the rest of the drama, the central idea is magnificently realised.
The Voice Thief is a one of a kind experience that is definitely one of the most memorable and inventive pieces of theatre to be found this winter.
“I absolutely do not want to make issue-based theatre”, insists Gill Robertson, Catherine Wheels’ artistic director (and, with Karen Tennent, co-creator of the show), in her programme notes. I admire her preference for metaphor over polemic, but I hope Robertson will not take offence at my description of The Voice Thief as a feminist play of the most creative and resonating kind.
New theatre show The Voice Thief explores female voices for the over-9s
Summerhall, Edinburgh from Saturday November 1, 2014, until Saturday November 15, 2014.
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