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SYLVIA RIMAT
Nationality: British
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below is a list of Sylvia Rimat's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Being Here While Not Being Here I Guess if the Stage Exploded. . .Being Here While Not Being Here
Synopsis:
When you enter the performance space for Sylvia Rimat's Being Here While Not Being Here you find a youngish woman, crouched on the floor, flesh bulging above her tight jeans, chalking geometric shapes with a blackboard ruler. We later discover that they represent pieces of furniture and microphones. the woman then addresses us, using a microphone despite the smallness of the venue, whether consciously to distort her voice or not I am unsure, though certainly the few sentences delivered without it were much clearer on the ear, but perhaps the intention is to mark the opening as not part of a play or narrative performance. the audience is asked to imagine the first part of the action for themselves. That she isn't there; that there are curtains, closed then open, that she is there but that it is the stage of a German theatre some years ago. It is seldom these days that I see a British show and find the production using house tabs - indeed, as at CPT they often have no curtain. Is this the avant garde recreating some very traditional theatre? the performer writes phrases on a blackboard that seem to title sections of the work but have no clear connection with other material presented. there is more measuring and marking out of object positions on the floor which still seem to relate to this German stage event of which Rimat tells us (despite the fact that she seems to have been a part of it) 'I could not quite understand what the performer was doing there.' I felt the same about her own work but perhaps more strongly.
- Howard Loxton, British theatre Guide
- Howard Loxton, British theatre Guide
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part of CPT's SPRINT Festival
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Synopsis:
Sylvia Rimat follows the aspirational and possibly impossible goal to present a show never to be forgotten by its audience members. By introducing memory tasks and techniques, then applying them to the stage situation, the audience is systematically trained to remember hopefully forever. the show draws on presence, on what happens in our brain when we create memories, and our urge to be commemorated. Rimat will be joined by several performers from around the world who support her mission live via Skype and by a living eagle owl. British Council Edinburgh Showcase.
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Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Aug 2013
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devised, performance art 1 hour
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