The play "IAM" will take place in Athy library on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd October.
John Clare, known as the ‘Mad Poet' spent 25 years of his life in an Asylum: “…the Land of Sodom where all the people's brains are turned the wrong way”
Meeting Lane Theatre Company, under the direction of Petra Costigan-Oorthuijs, devised a play based on aspects of his life and poetry, entitled ‘ IAM.'. The play shows John Clare's perception of events in his life, as well as the events itself, challenging the audience's perception of what true reality is.
‘IAM' is an hour of physical theatre that takes John Clare's life and writings as an insight into mental illness; a room of laughing-mirrors, where nothing is what it appears. It magnifies what seems insignificant and it minimizes what is perceived as important. It turns perception upside down and inside out; making freedom a restriction, removing the message from expression and making the physical sexual; where ‘I am' means nothing and everything.
A cast of five extra-ordinary actors will keep the audience on the edge of their seat for the hour through confrontational scenes of theatre; a performance not to be missed.
Petra Costigan-Oorthuijs has 20 years of experience in Theatre and directed many original plays in physical theatre in her native country The Netherlands, where she got her MA in Drama in the Royal University of Arts, Utrecht. Based on the approach of Michael Chekhov, this type of Acting and Playwright has created original, surrealistic plays that are a must for anybody interested in theatre. |
