"A new piece of British devised theatre is showing at the Merlin this autumn. Ever heard of the White Spot? It's a bit like the blind spot when you're driving your car and you can't see everything, except this particular spot is connected to ourselves.It's what we can't see and what everyone else can see. What we fight to control and hide and what others use to exploit. This is a key theme of Identity that forms the basis of the piece "My Chair - Your Self" which premiered last February and is now available in repertoire at the Merlin International theatre from this autumn.
The piece is really a study of how relationships effect and alter our own identity. How we can reinvent ourselves with someone new, become trapped with someone old, allow ourselves to be manipulated or indeed manipulate ourselves and others by the roles we give ourselves to play.
The show explores this fragility through two characters that have become dislocated from the conventional social categories and felt compelled to re-invent themselves. Played-out in the half truth half fantasy worlds they depend on for their existence. With only one real piece of furniture, a chair, they rely on their imaginations to arrange and rearrange the furniture of both their surroundings and their relationship, to discover each others reality and story. In English with some Hungarian.
Directed by András Éry-Kovács
Performers Tünde Szalontay and Alexis Latham
Devised by the company and based on an original idea by Alexis Latham."
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18.10.2007