Hello!
I am the director of Refract Theatre Company, working on our forthcoming production of When You See It; a show fundamentally revolved and devised around photography and still image.
For us, the process was kick-started on a personal level, with the company transforming images close to their hearts into gentle, but stimulating pieces of theatre.
We then progressed onto more famous images.
-Have you ever questioned what was happening, just outside of the frame of that oh-so-famous Marilyn shot?
-Or what the figures in your family photographs are really thinking?
-What does that celebrated Times Square kissing image mean for you?
The mass produced image is used as a representation of romance on bedroom walls across the world. Did you know, the lady in the photograph is one of many random females that he decided to plonk a kiss on in the street?
It screams more ‘sexual harassment’ than ‘love’ if you ask me.
This truly has, and continues to be, an eye-opening process – with rehearsals quite often moving cast and crew from tears to uncontrollable laughter (and sometimes tears of laughter!)
When You See It promises to hold your hand through a fragmented multimedia vision of loss, New Beginnings and relationships, twisting any pre-existing assumptions of world famous snapshots.
Are they falling, or flying?
You decide.