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The performance creates a world of boundless imagination where the limits of the physical world are totally disregarded leaving the audience deliciously confused.
Created by Tobias Wegner with the German ensemble Circle of Eleven, the show tells of the follies and forebearance of humankind in a world gone topsy-turvy. Leo, the character played by Wegner, is locked in a cube-like room where the force of gravity shifts his world 90 degrees.
The performance is presented in such a way that the audience see both Leo’s live performance as well as the altered, gravity-defying appearance which is projected onto a screen. Wegner says that the magic of this fantastical playground only works when his real physical relationship to the screen world is as clear as his relationship to the real world.
The show premiered at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe, winning three awards, including the Three Weeks Editors Award and the Carol Tanbor Best of Edinburgh Award.
The storyline succeeds, without any dialogue in having great emotional impact on the audience.
This is a must-see at Hifa this year as audiences watch Wegner explore his new and confusing world with deft physical adjustments and arduous balances.
For fans of this type of physical theatre, Hifa will this year offer a regular circus act by the name of Lady Cocktail free for those in the Festival’s Royal Norwegian Embassy Global Quarter.
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