iara is starting to fear the worst. She’s looking for a roomful of strangers whose arms she can fall into. And while she knows that she cannot necessarily be trusted, and may not be entirely deserving of help, tonight she would like to put herself in your hands….
In an hour of troubling intimacy and drunken excess, all played out in miniature, Sleepwalk Collective chop up and replay the iconography of B-movies and early cinema in a joyous and desperate attempt to re-work cinematic and cultural clichés into something heartfelt and profound. This is a cry for help, and it’s about me, and you, and the strange and sometimes frightening connection that is growing between us.
THE SIRENS can also be performed as a 10 minute 1-on-1 performance.
There is a 1-on-1 version of THE SIRENS for hotel rooms which can be performed on it’s own or which can be programmed alongside the theatrical version.
WINNER First Prize, BE Festival Birmingham 2011
WINNER Best Actress, BE Festival Birmingham 2011
WINNER Best Actress, SKENA UP Kosovo 2011
WINNER Best Direction, Festival ACT Bilbao 2010
NOMINATED Total Theatre Award 2011
“An unsettlingly languid but hauntingly touching display of live-art tragi-comic stand-up”
Created by Sleepwalk Collective
ORIGINAL IDEA AND CREATION: Sleepwalk Collective
PERFORMANCE: iara Solano Arana
MANAGEMENT: Sammy Metcalfe
TEXT: Sammy Metcalfe, with iara Solano Arana
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Sammy Metcalfe with Esme Squalor
SCENOGRAPHY AND COSTUME: iara Solano Arana
PHOTOS: Futura Tittaferrante, Alessia Bombaci and Miguel Gil
- THE SIRENS was supported by Factoría de Fuegos.
- Support on tour: Instituto Etxepare.
