Edinburgh Fringe 3-29 Aug - Pleasance King Dome 3.40pm (excl 16 and 23)
Multi award-winning Theatre Ad Infinitum invites you on a journey of life, death, and enduring love. After his wife passes away, William escapes to a paradise of fantasy and past memories, a place far from the reality of his grief. Returning from beyond the grave, Rose revisits her widowed companion to perform one last act of love: to help him let go…
Exquisitely created, Translunar Paradise is told entirely without words and in their place are movement, haunting music and masks. This is a powerful and emotional tale of a man who is confronted by the solitude of bereavement. Director and performer George Mann took inspiration from WB Yeats’ The Tower; ‘This is about the gap between young and old. Age, like a mask, can obscure the fact a person was once young. We’re working without words to convey this story through the body and music on a poetic level. The audience will be immersed in feeling, sensations and movements. We hope they go home feeling they’ve experienced something very special.’
Translunar Paradise will premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it can be seen at the Pleasance King Dome at 3.40pm between 3-29 August (excl 16 and 23). Theatre Ad Infinitum has been amassing Awards – most recently an Argus Angel (for one of the most outstanding performances at the Brighton Fringe for The Big Smoke), and The Small Scene Theatre Festival Audience Award in Croatia for Odyssey. The company has also won a Stage Award, the BE Festival development award, was Mervin Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe 2008-10 and was nominated for a Total Theatre Award 2010. It has recently been awarded an Arts Council England grant for help with the creation and touring of Translunar Paradise Autumn 2011. Translunar Paradise is supported by the Ustinov, Bath, BE Festival, MAC, The Lowry and Redbridge Arts Centre.
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Booking information: Venue: Pleasance King Dome. Dates: – 3-29 August (excl 16 and 23). Time: 3.40pm. Tickets: Previews 3-5th: £5, Monday-Thursday: £9.50 (£8), Friday-Sunday £10 (£9) Box Office: 0131 556 6550 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0131 556 6550 end_of_the_skype_highlighting Online: www.pleasance.co.uk/edinburgh More company info: www.theatreadinfinitum.co.uk
Credits: Directed and conceived by George Mann, Devised and performed by Kim Heron, George Mann, Deborah Pugh, Music by Kim Heron & George Mann, Costume by Clare Amos, Set by Francesco Gorni, Lighting Designer Peter Harrison, Photos by Alex Brenner, Masks by Victoria Beaton, Publicity design by Helen Stewart, Press/PR by RM Communications
