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Breathless Beowulf brings storytelling theatre to Dublin
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Sunday October 21, 2007 22:33 by The Oh-Aissieux - Narrative Arts Club narrativearts at gmail dot com Cill Mhaighneann 086 060 3818
The seanchaí never played the watering-can this way! Two Danish performers last night gave an adventurous audience at the Players Theatre its first dazzling glimpse of “storytelling theatre” with a breath-taking performance of their free adaptation of the Old English saga, Beowulf. Performing non-stop for 70 minutes to a rapt audience of a hundred people, Jesper la Cour Andersen and Troels Kirk Ejsing used simple narration, intimate eye contact, audience interaction, broad physical mime and innovative music to fire the synapses of their listeners’ imagination, with only occasional departures into enactment of brief scenes from the saga. |
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Jump To Comment: 2 1Thanks to everybody who made the show possible, and in particular:
Jesper, Troels and the Telling Theatre
Ciarán O'Melia, Colm McNally and the Committee of the DU Players
Alice Jorgensen, Elizabeth McCarthy and the School of English at TCD
Mikkel Hess and the Embassy of Denmark
Kieran Owen and the Event Guide
The show was followed by a very erudite discussion, where we learnt that the watering-can combines three instruments in one: trumpet, flute and drum. We were perplexed to discover that the Old English watering-can is marked in litres.
Grendel-Jesper at the DU Players Theatre
Troels plays the watering-can for the DU Players