Under Glass

UNDER GLASS is an enthralling site specific performance in which a collection of extraordinary human beings are contained in a series of glass jars and cabinets. Blending visual imagery, choreography, an original score by Paul Clark and text by TS Eliot Awardwinning poet Alice Oswald.

Each character exists within their own delicate environment: a woman in a jam jar, a shy ‘wallflower’ pinned behind a glass panel, a man clockwatching in his office. Under Glass is an animated exhibition of human life. At once medical laboratory, museum exhibit and gallery, UNDER GLASS lifts characters out of the hurly burly of everyday life and frames their moments of solitude; examining human beings attempting, with varying success, to live within their limits.

Commissioned by Sadler’s Wells, UNDER GLASS won the Total Theatre Award: Visual & Physical Theatre, 2009. Supported by a Wellcome Trust People Award.

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