JUDE WALTON
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NO HOPE NO REASON
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07 – 10 October 2004
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Walls fill with roses, droplets of water, cloudscapes and scaffolds. All is evaporative and evocative in this visual opera for hearts and minds in search of love, beauty and meaning in a world that has become fragmented and sullied.
Through song, dance and projected image, No Hope No Reason evokes a world where certainty has been lost. There is a sense of foreboding. You might be troubled by it yet seduced. You might lose your way, and be forced to abandon a sense of direction. You realise there is no shelter, no firm foothold, no second chance. You realise the world is cracked, flawed, yet brilliant beyond belief.
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No Hope No Reason, devised and directed by Jude Walton, was originally performed at Frank’s Stairway to Heaven in 1991, in collaboration with singer Hartley Newnham and with slide projections by artist Ian de Gruchy. Its return combines original and new material and performers in the creation of an intensely poignant and poetic sensorium.
THIS PRODUCTION CONTAINS NUDITY
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| | | | | Vivien Hamilton
Simon Biazeck
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| | | | | | Shona Innes
Tim Preston
Mark Minchinton
Simon Ellis
Danni von der Borch
Shannon Bott
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