March 02 - March 25, 2010
7.30pm, except Thu 4 March 7pm
£12 (£7 concs). Tuesdays Pay What You Can.
Polarbear, mac and BAC in association with the Albany present
'RETURN'
Noah returns to a place he had to leave, a place in which he didn’t belong. Now he has to fit back into a world where much feels the same, but where everything has changed.
Polarbear takes his audience on a lyrical journey, visualising scenes and landscapes orally to conjure up our deepest imaginings of how to fit in a place we once called home. ‘RETURN’ is at once a film, a homecoming, a story of return, loss and memory; the ultimate campfire tale.
'Deeply emotive and faultlessly delivered' 5 STARS South London Press'His minimal style and unsettlingly straightforward and blunt lyricism make him shine' Dazed & Confused
'Effective stuff...' 4 STARS whatsonstage.com
'Polarbear is unique in his subtle and suggestive approach towards spoken word performance' 4 STARS The Public Reviews
'Very powerful' Audience Member
Special performances of ‘RETURN’: On Thursday evenings throughout the run, ‘RETURN’ will be performed in unusual spaces around the building- from a small room with a fire to the enormous grand hall- as Polarbear explores the changing dynamics of the piece and the possibility of creating intimacy in different spaces:
Thursday 11 March - Dark Room
Thursday 18 March - Fireplace Room
Thursday 25 March - Grand Hall
Hungry for more? After the show see Sporadical by Little Bulb Theatre at 9.30pm or The Lost Menagerie by Ventriloquist on 19 & 20 March at 8.45pm.
Part of The Big Story - a collection of work celebrating dozens of invented and retold stories across BAC’s home in Battersea’s old Town Hall.
Designer Marie Blunck. Director & Script Development Yael Shavit. Developed and commissioned by BAC and Live Lit Consortium.
Running time: approx. 55 mins
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