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Waves 2006
a work devised by Katie Mitchell and the Company
from the text of Virginia Woolf's novel, The Waves
Waves returns to the National Theatre for a limited run from 20 August - 9 September 2008. The production will then tour to Leeds, Salford, Bath, Dublin, The Hague, Luxembourg and New York. Read full details here.
'An extraordinary show: spellbinding, sophisticated and moving'
Sunday Times
In the beginning, there was a nursery, with windows opening on to a garden, and beyond that the sea.
A fragmented and dreamlike tale of friendship, loss, identity and love.
Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched – love for instance – we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.
A multi-media production based on Virginia Woolf's ground-breaking experiment in literary form, The Waves.
'Theatre and video come together so seamlessly and complement each other so exquisitely it is as if Mitchell, her actors and video artist Leo Warner have created an entirely new art form.'
Guardian Unlimited
Read more about The Waves on Wikipedia and Virginai Woolf on Encycolpaedia Britannica.
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Cast credits:
Production credits:
Director: Katie Mitchell
Designer: Vicki Mortimer
Lighting Designer: Paule Constable
Video Designer: Leo Warner for Fifty-Nine Ltd
Music: Paul Clark
Sound Designer: Gareth Fry
photo by Stephen Cummiskey
Waves 2006 finished on: 8 February 2007
