Photo: Jurg Bauman
It begins almost as a game, as a man, who looks as though he just stepped out of the audience, pushes little paper boats downstage along a strip of blue. A young woman moves into his sight, there are some words exchanged, there are also words projected on the screen. Suddenly, in a highly dramatic gesture and a loud rough voice, the Magician comes to life and orders his young slave, (a fragile but powerful Ariel) to cause a shipwreck. Then all hell breaks loose!
Violent lighting effects, intensely evocative sound effects, human-like figures being tossed about in what looks like wind, rain, huge waves and the most terrible lashing out of natural elements. The storm becomes the psychic shock that will send us hurtling into the world of Crystal Pite and her creative team, and never let us go. From the very first moments, we see that this is going to be a visually exciting event where dance, images, sound, music, film, corporeal forms and costumes, intersect in the most unexpected way to create an intermedial artistic event that is extraordinarily original and highly charged with creative and physical energy.
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