Company of Angels presentsSENSE
by Anja Hilling
April 28th 2009 - May 2nd 2009
Show starts: 7.30pm (2.30pm matinees: 29 April & 2 May)
Running time: 3 hours including intervals
A play about teenagers, love, and the need to make radical choices, Sense is an intense, poetic journey into touching, inhaling, tasting, hearing, seeing and experiencing life to the extreme.
Experience this series of five evocative plays performed throughout Southwark Playhouse, reinterpreting the performance space.
Refreshments provided.
Eyes – Phoebe’s eyes are blue; sometimes turquoise. The most beautiful thing about her and full of promise. Phoebe is in love with Tommi. At Tommi’s party she meets Fred, the blind DJ at Tommi’s party with a stupid pony tail and skinny arms - Phoebe didn’t see him coming. Before she knows it she finds herself getting lost in his eyes on a train and blacks out…
Nose – Karl and Tommi have been best mates since they were little. They share everything - schools, clothes, films – even their taste in girls. Then they both go and fall in love with Jasmin… A poetic, aromatic journey of friendship, infatuation and betrayal.
Skin – When Jasmin meets Jule, it almost kills her. Jule has bones glowing through her skin, cuts on her arms and neck and toothpicks in the palm of her hand. Jasmin runs after her, hardly able to breathe, her lungs almost bursting. When Jasmin finally catches up with Jule, both are surprised by the intensity of their feelings.
Ears – Natasha and Jule shared a room at the clinic. Natasha refuses to talk, instead she makes noises. Humming mostly, and sometimes gargling with spit. For Natasha, voices are nothing but pain, conversation is impossible. Until she meets Albert. Or rather, hears the sound of his feet underwater at the local swimming pool…
Tongue – Beate and Laurent have been together for seven weeks. Since he fell out of a hedge at Tommi’s party, Beate has been overwhelmed by his stories – about the Cap Verde Islands, his hometown of Fogo, volcanoes, and his parents. Now he stands in her kitchen cooking a traditional African dish, Beate is overwhelmed by the tastes and flavours – and Laurent’s advances…
" astonishingly grown-up and hard-hitting theatre for young people"
Lyn Gardner - The Guardian, on Theatre Cafe 2008
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Creative Team
Translators |
- Logan Kennedy and Leonard Unglaub |