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Company of Angels –
The Story of Charlotte Salomon
Horse and Bamboo Theatre Company
Riverbank
Arts Centre Newbridge
Wednesday 17th September
8.00pm (Tickets €10 / €8)
Booking 045 448333
boxoffice@riverbank.ie
Company of Angels – The Story of Charlotte Salomon, is touring
throughout the UK and Ireland throughout 2003, stopping at Newbridge for
a performance at the Riverbank on September 17th.
Charlotte Salomon was a German Jewish woman, a painter, born in
Berlin in 1917. She was put to death just 26 years later in Birkenau
concentration camp. In the last year of her life, while in exile in the
South of France, she produced an amazing series of 765 gouache paintings.
Whilst these provide an intensely personal account of her life, with its
complex relationships, they are also deeply rooted in and affected by,
the political environment of that era – the gruesome outcome of
which was, at that time, yet unknown. The paintings provide us with one
of the most penetrating visual records of an individual life under the
Nazi regime.
Horse and Bamboo has used this amazingly rich material to open
up the work of this extraordinary artist to a wider audience. The Company
has not recreated her work, titled by Charlotte as “Leben oder Theatre”,
- “Life or Theatre”, but has created a visual and musical
world bringing to life the world of the paintings as a piece of theatre
within the context of what we know of Charlotte’s history and the
politics of the era. The piece is told using masks, puppetry in various
forms, digital projection and music.
Horse and Bamboo Theatre is the leading mask and puppet theatre
company in the UK. It has been making a unique, intelligent and distinctive
visual theatre for almost 25 years. Founded in 1978 by Bob Frith, it is
based in Lancashire, UK. The Company has created over 80 original projections,
including extensive tours of the UK and the continent. It also runs local
arts projects at the Horse and Bamboo Centre; an influential programme
of work for people with special needs and it organises various training
courses and workshops.
For further information, please contact Catríona or Gráinne
on
(045) 448314/5 or by e-mail at artscentre@riverbank.ie
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