You are reading about a show. Right from the very beginning, from the first or second line even, the description that you’re reading – which is the marketing copy put out by the theatre – seems almost overbearingly precious and knowing and pleased with itself. Or maybe less pleased with itself than eager to please, eager to be admired, to be thought of as smart, droll, whatever.
You can feel yourself starting to glaze over. The light is draining gently out of your eyes and out of the sky and out of everything. There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live. Beneath you the earth spins on around and around like a massive GIF so huge it’s only visible from space.
Khloé Kardashian is a loose retelling of Chekhov’s Three Sisters and the second in a trilogy of performance pieces about the concepts of reality and “reality,” art and celebrity.
«A moving and densely layered piece, occupying the space between the text and the staging.»
«Khloé Kardashian’ is beautifully unsettling, chilly and hypnotic – Lynchian in its ability to create something of this world and yet not.”»
Created by Sleepwalk Collective
IDEA AND CREATION: Sleepwalk Collective with the performers
TEXT: Sammy Metcalfe with iara Solano Arana
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Sammy Metcalfe with Christopher Brett Bailey
INTERPRETACIÓN: Paul Burke, Tristan Chadwick, Lily Rae Hewitt Jasilek, Sam Lowe, Frank Macdonald and Kate Smith.
TECHNICAL AND PRODUCTION TEAM: Alex Fernandes, Angela Wayland, Carol Wilson, Cassius Murray, Christopher Brett Bailey, Debbie Uttley, Jack Dale, and Joe Reynolds.
WITH THE SUPPORT OF: Wayne Jackson and The Arden School of Theatre
