Sleeping Beauty - Manipulate Festival
9th FEBRUARY 2019
21.30PM
Perth Theatre
Compagnie Akselere France presents Sleeping Beauty as part of the Manipulate Festival at Perth Theatre.
The kingdom of Liverpool is devastated by unemployment and famine. It’s safer to be a gang member than to be alone and needles have replaced spindles. Not the best place for dreams about modern-day princesses and very far away from the nearest, happily-ever-after fairy tale castle.
A personal interpretation of the darker elements of the Briar Rose fairy tale, a fairy tale for grownups, created and performed by Compagnie Akselere’s artistic director, Colette Garrigan.
Creating a unique and threatening realm of objects and imaginative lighting, Garrigan integrates her native Liverpudlian voice with her adopted French tongue to describe a dangerous world where the blackest of humour co-exists with poetic stillness and insights.
Age Guidance 13+
PART OF THE MANIPULATE FESTIVAL
Scotland’s annual celebration of puppetry, animation and object theatre.