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Container review – avant-garde experiment evokes the vocalised sound of online scrolling
New Diorama, LondonWriter-director Alan Fielden and his talented performers explore people smuggling, ancient imperialism and the sound of globalisationIt starts off with single words being spoken in turn, like a game of association between friends, but it builds to sentences crisscrossing each other. Some are benign, funny or quotidian statements, others feature torture and incriminating violence. “Overwhelm” is what inspired the five-strong cast to devise this avant-garde experiment in polyphony and it might be the closest thing to the vocalised sound of online scrolling.Written by Alan Fielden, it plays out like a hybrid gig or word symphony with performers in front of music stands as they speak, sing and play various instruments. One voice rises above the others, angrily, another whispers, but then they sing in chorus or recite a secular liturgy. Continue reading...
New Diorama, London
Writer-director Alan Fielden and his talented performers explore people smuggling, ancient imperialism and the sound of globalisation
It starts off with single words being spoken in turn, like a game of association between friends, but it builds to sentences crisscrossing each other. Some are benign, funny or quotidian statements, others feature torture and incriminating violence. “Overwhelm” is what inspired the five-strong cast to devise this avant-garde experiment in polyphony and it might be the closest thing to the vocalised sound of online scrolling.
Written by Alan Fielden, it plays out like a hybrid gig or word symphony with performers in front of music stands as they speak, sing and play various instruments. One voice rises above the others, angrily, another whispers, but then they sing in chorus or recite a secular liturgy. Continue reading...
