O Human Child
The Moser Theatre, Oxford, November 14-16, 2012
Special Preview Performance - Satan's Rout Ball, The Last Tuesday Society, London, October 26
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand.
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Four lovers wander into a dark wood. An idealistic knight searches for the woman of his dreams. A newly-married bride dreams of a more thrilling life. A child vanishes in the night. Follow them, and find yourself trapped within the fairy realm: a place where anything can happen, and few make it out alive...Fusing the writings of Shakespeare, Yeats, Rossetti, Middleton, and Keats with haunting music and devised immersive, theatre, O HUMAN CHILD is a piece of innovative "new editing" - classic texts as you've never experienced them before
Adapted and directed by Tara Isabella Burton. Produced by Kit Rees. Designed and Production Managed by Diana Sofronieva. Marketed by Risham Nadeem. With choreography and the assistance of Kezia St Clere Smithe and Rebecca Neale.
Special Preview Performance - Satan's Rout Ball, The Last Tuesday Society, London, October 26
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand.
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Four lovers wander into a dark wood. An idealistic knight searches for the woman of his dreams. A newly-married bride dreams of a more thrilling life. A child vanishes in the night. Follow them, and find yourself trapped within the fairy realm: a place where anything can happen, and few make it out alive...Fusing the writings of Shakespeare, Yeats, Rossetti, Middleton, and Keats with haunting music and devised immersive, theatre, O HUMAN CHILD is a piece of innovative "new editing" - classic texts as you've never experienced them before
Adapted and directed by Tara Isabella Burton. Produced by Kit Rees. Designed and Production Managed by Diana Sofronieva. Marketed by Risham Nadeem. With choreography and the assistance of Kezia St Clere Smithe and Rebecca Neale.
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Show photos taken by Kit Rees and Michelle Lai. Press Photos taken by Sin Bozkurt.
praise from reviewers
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".Inviting the audience to slip into the beguiling twilight world of the fairy realm with an arsenal of verse, improv and raw physicality, the production taps into something primal, providing a unique and altogether otherworldly experience..
And the payoff of their success is as much as could be asked for, not only gifting each spectator with a unique, intimate and decidedly consuming experience, but also working at a thematic level by accentuating the inexorable siren call of the (theatrical) woods as they slowly suck in characters and audience alike... ‘O Human Child’ succeeds at that most intrinsic of theatrical goals: crafting a visceral emotional experience for its audience – an experience that engrosses, delights, and bewilders, often all at once. It makes a bold gambit to do so, but it’s certainly one that pays dividends." - Gavin Elias, Oxford Theatre Review, FOUR STARS |
"I was intrigued to be lured into the woods of Trinity one chilly November night, with instructions only 'to bring a coat'.
But I couldn’t have thought of a more appropriate form of invitation to O Human Child, which is dark and primal, with the plot revolving around the luring away and initiation of a child in a paganistic fairy ritual. I couldn’t help feeling like that child...the emotional intensity on show here should be reason enough to allow yourself to be lured into this Bacchanal ritual." -Max Dalton, Cherwell, FOUR STARS |