Red Moon Rising is proud to announce that their new work, The Oak’s Bride will be presented as part of the Next Wave Festival in May, 2010.
The Oak’s Bride is inspired by Ted Hughes’ poetic novel Gaudete. This text illuminates a beautiful and electrifying apocalypse and was chosen for its immediate and visceral nature. The language is rich and full of extremely evocative imagery that urges the reader to reach into themselves to make sense of it.
In a similar way, Red Moon Rising strives to create boldly physical, image-based theatrical environments that encourage the audience to mindfully engage with the work and respond honestly to it.
Using the expressionistic physical theatre style of Butoh, The Oak’s Bride explores what happens to the human body when its component parts are at war. It confronts contemporary issues such as the fragmentation of identity through technology, the archetypical struggle between life and its shadow and the innately human drive for power over others.
The Oak’s Bride asks: what happens when the primal and evolved collide on a world that, in Hughes’ own words is “out of control”? This site-specific work will involve the integration of live performers with immersive projected worlds, incorporating animation, live drawing and filmic material. This work will explore the relationship between bodies in space and how they interact with these living, interactive environments.
