Manchester Premiere
With an eye on vaudeville, the night sky, and this note: “If I die, my knowledge may die with me”, Cupola Bobber investigate the stars, the railroad, and their memories in a struggle to pinpoint something infinitely satisfying.
Using an intricate web of lo-fi mechanics, they convert a confined interior into an expansive nightscape, a universe out of cardboard, and two small towers made from toy bricks. The space changes, tasks flow into each other, the light goes from bright to twilight to night… Stars dancing together, dialogue that finds meaning in dozens of connecting threads, and resolution in the kind of beauty that makes you sigh.
“A coup de theatre of rare sublimity” (The Chicago Reader)
Chicago-based duo Cupola Bobber are Nuffield International Artists in Residence. They make physical performance that hangs somewhere between staged theatrics and the beautifully familiar.
Cupola Bobber are Stephen Fiehn and Tyler Myers. Founded in 1999, Cupola Bobber have created three full length performances: Subterfuge (2001), Petitmal (2004) and The Man Who Pictured Space From His Apartment (2007). Alongside formal performance work they have made video, durational performance, and published written works.
Cupola Bobber create work using a slow process of collaboration, research, and rehearsal. They mix basic materials with homespun engineering, bumbling wit, and a desire to make delicate work that surprises viewers with its detail, humour, and care. They aim to use this simple aesthetic to explore the world for an hour or two, looking at it from arms length, creating a new system for the audience to discover meaning. Intimacy, delicacy, and confusion are important; exhaustion is deployed to dramatize minutia.
For more information go to: www.cupolabobber.com
This tour is supported and produced by the Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster.
