Running time: approx 35 mins
Produced by Fuel.
Under Glass is a performance which takes place within a series of glass jars and cabinets. Blending visual imagery, choreography, an original score by Paul Clark and text by TS Eliot Award-winning poet Alice Oswald, Under Glass is an animated exhibition of human life.
At once medical laboratory, museum exhibit and gallery, Under Glass lifts characters out of the hurly burly of everyday life and frames their moments of solitude; examining human beings attempting, with varying success to live within their limits. Each character exists in its own delicate environment: a woman in a jam jar, a shy ‘wallflower’ pinned behind a glass panel, a man clockwatching in his office.
“The quality of the performance is astonishing and unforgettable.” The Scotsman
Winner of the Total Theatre Award: Visual & Physical Theatre 2009.
A Sadler’s Wells Commission.
