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Director   Evgeny Kozlov
 Dance   Alexander Bondarev
Julia Tokareva   Irina Kozlova   Evgeny Kozlov
Technician and performer  Tanya Williams
 Stage and costume design   DoTheatre company

 

Hangman is a fusion of different theatrical and dance form, it combines elements from the long established Theatre of the Absurd with those of contemporary dance.
Hangman is a game and the personage at the same time. The naivety of clown farce is enriched by the charming use of Black Humour.

A bizarre, comic and magical story brings you in a dark delirious place, lit with the swinging lamps and shattering shadows where three characters of Damn Trinity-the Blind, the Deaf and the Dumb-playing an endless puzzle game- who is the Victim. The gamble of this play let you see the shift of their roles and positions. With the sketch-like visual stage transformation, Hangman would lead you through a various number of situations from the developing a crime, its investigation to the court and public execution as well as to dive into the semantic puzzle of words Hang- or- man, manipulating with the meanings. Musically haunting- it is a thought provoking and inspirational piece.

Press extracts

Thunderous Applause for Dancing Lights and Floating Tables

Hangman (the Do-Theatre dance company's latest choreography,) leads us into a strange world of perpetrators and victims, judges and executioners,
by evoking startling associations and eerie effects of light and shadow.
What's important and significant is how the Trinity of personified deafness, blindness and muteness is interpreted and overcome in the dancing.
...dancing lights and floating tables start a sort of bizarre and surreal interaction between convicts, judges and murderers.

                                                                             Grit Schorn. AachenerZeitung   April 2006
Killing good body art.

In the Hangman's choreography an innovative language of movements is created, in which both brutal and macabre elements as well as poetic and mysterious elements are used ingeniously.
The appeal of this fascinating and captivating Hangman legend lies in the role reversals and the intriguing changes of perspective.

                                                                                         Aachener Nachrichten   April 2006

 

  


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