Fando & Lis; fable about Love and Death (7pm)
 

La Casa en Llamas (The Burning house)

This is an atypical love history. We were working on creating a close relationship between Fando and Lis and a third character which we created and added to the original script (the character is Death) to try to create our version of the original play. We are performing using our mother tongue (Spanish), physical theatre, symbolism and all our acting skills to create this piece of theatre.

Fando and Lis don’t live in any special place, in any particular time, nor in any common reality. Fando and Lis live between love and death. Their only goal is to go to ‘Tar’- a fictitious place. Life, Love and Death create a triangle that is eternal. This relationship provides the framework for life and connects the characters in many different ways throughout life’s journey. We believe in a living theatre- a theatre in communion with the audience and ourselves. Our motivation: watching the flames while the house burns…

The Burning House is a new Theatre Company from Spain with its base in Exeter. We have been working on a version of the play Fando y Lis by the Spanish writer Fernando Arrabal.

Craic In A Rock (7pm)

La la Lunas

Craic in a Rock builds on the performance A Date with Sedusa by Maggie Irving, performed in Plymouth in 2012. The show looks at the mischievous and transformative power of laughter and clowning told through the re-vamped myths of Medusa, Baubo and Sisyphus.
The film Sedusa Medusa asks the audience to connect with strangers using playful and harmless seduction techniques. Sedusa, a snaky haired gorgon comes from a crack in a cave. Petrifaction alert! Seduction and stones come to life through Sedusa’s craic with the audience and her desire to be remembered as a face for transformation. Baubo, the crone trickster emerges as an embodiment of pleasure (performed by Carole Crawford). Bawdy Baubo is savvy, sassy and jolly naughty.

Meanwhile Miss Sisyphus (Dagmar Schwitzgebel) rocks up.
Craic in a Rock is a blend of film, audience interaction, character play, dance, clowning and gifting. Lives are not set in stone; whilst stone is dead, it is alive with durability. A gifted stone reminds the audience to re-vision myth and to remember that Medusa and Baubo’s laughter rocks.

Maggie Irving, Dagmar Schwitzgebel and Carole Crawford founded LaLa Lunas, which works to inspire and collaborate with artists living in Devon.

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