Traverse theatre, Edinburgh
Scottish Ensemble and Vanishing Point’s collaboration explores death and dying with a blend of dramatic monologue, literary quotation and live musical performance
The mystical minimalism of the music of Arvo Pärt, all shifting patterns and permutations cloaked in immense stillness, is the starting point for this ambitious collaboration between Vanishing Point and the Scottish Ensemble. The premise, based on anecdotal evidence and some ground research, is that his music speaks to people at the end of their lives. The result is this exploration of death and dying which blends dramatic monologue, literary quotation and live music into a fully fledged stage work.
Scottish Ensemble writer in residence Gareth K Vile and performer Pauline Goldsmith have created a monologue – interwoven with Pärt’s music – in which an unnamed narrator recounts the final days of a friend with a terminal diagnosis. This isn’t a rose-tinted, benign view of death but rather a deliberately unsentimental, warts-and-all account, tinged with black humour. The final element is the staging, a black box space illuminated by a single neon light, with curtains that open to reveal a ghostly, glowing figure on a hospital bed.
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