Podcast #162

Sarah McKereghan and Peter Parish of R.I.P.E Theatre discuss their new show, MIMETIC. This show explores the issues of human mimicry: how we mimic and why we mimic. The principle behind this piece is to explore the cages we humans live behind and how we then look out wishing to be something or somewhere else. This is a collaboratively written piece, and writers and director claim the core element of this production is character interaction / reactions infused with the animal archetypes (with archetypes being defined by Peter Parish as: The seed from which personality grows. There was an interesting segment in which we discussed some of the classical theoreticians that the company drew upon in order to bring the piece to life. Meyerhold’s Biomechanics was used to refine gestures to communicate as effectively as possible their meaning. An exercise based on the work of Checkov was used to inspire absurd movement that was then “pedestrianized”. And the works of Boal was used to explore Image theatre, Form theatre and Invisible theatre. All in all, these cats seemed well versed in their material and presented some powerful material that can utilized by all who dare to think outside the box.

SHOW NOTES
RIPE Theatre: the Website

Playing MAR 7th - 29th
RIPE Theatre presents MIMETIC: Show Info

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