We were delighted to host Bez Kinte company for a development/rehearsal week in our Loose End Studio space last week as they worked on their new show BREAKS which will premiere in the Dublin Fringe Festival 2016.
BREAKS is a devised theatre show inspired by an incredible true story. There’s an angel on a killing spree in the city of Bremen. For more than a decade she systematically poisons everyone in her life: parents, children, lovers and friends. As the body count mounts, she layers herself in thirteen corsets, creating a dangerous illusion of beauty.
This is a collaborative, multi-disciplinary project created by a director, designer, dramaturge and performer. It explores sensory and non-linear ways of storytelling, to expose the fundamentally gendered way in which we present stories, and the value we place on them.
Director Louisa Sanfey (Trifles, Foxfinder) and designer Naomi Faughnan (Daughters of the Revolution, A Lesson in When to Quit) recently collaborated on THE BELLS OF at Theatre Upstairs, which blog Unforgettable Lines described as ‘a beautifully constructed and directed piece of theatre that challenges the audience.’
For BREAKS they worked with dramaturge Emma Hughes and performer Erin Gilgen (Olympia, Gruesome Playground Injuries). They are all alumni of the Lir Academy and have been working together on this project since November 2015.
