Carboot Theatre
Fugue Fugitive
Carboot Theatre is committed to returning writing to theatre, challenging the limitations of screen and monosyllable, and rediscovering expression through language.
War and its internal ramifications seen through the mind and heart of a woman who has experienced its worst excesses in the terrorscape of 1990s Bosnia. This literary pilgrimage into the ancient roots of conflict and suffering brings us face to face with destiny and ourselves.
Performances:
6th to 11th August
Price:
£5.00 (£3.00) »
Moving and Memorable. T-chilling and T-ear jerking.
fugue
–noun
“a polyphonic composition based upon one, two, or more themes, which are enunciated by several voices or parts in turn, subjected to contrapuntal treatment, and gradually built up into a complex form having somewhat distinct divisions or stages of development and a marked climax at the end.”
T-chilling and T-ear jerking. Moving and Memorable. This powerful and compelling drama faces you with facts and feelings which most other works fear to focus on.
The camps of Bosnia were reported as even worse than the Nazi Concentration Camps. At least they fed you bread and water once a day in Auschwitz. Even the hospitals in Bosnia were no refuge from the guns, the snarling dogs and the mindless, mind-numbing beatings.
How can we “Know” the fears, violations, torture, rape and traumas of undiluted hatred and persecution in the name of religion, ethnicity and culture? I hope you never have and I hope you never will.
How can we stop for once and for all the endless pattern of violation and utter human degradation which goes under the names of slavery, Nazi Europe, child prostitution, abuse of women, children and prisoners, Rwanda and Bosnia et al………? To have any chance we must face it and feel it.
This Fugue uses three frazzled and fragmented voices. Mangled minds, disjointed, jarred and scarred by torture, starvation; confinement and rat infested excrement, give you some unsavoury facts and elicit in you some deeply disturbing feelings.
These facts and feelings can only be calmed momentarily by rhyme, rhythm and survival incantations. The interconnected monologues are a courageous collage of shadowy fear, semi-madness and helplessness which pull no punches and out of which the most spiritual can come to doubt God, religion, humanity and love. Yet through the darkness and suffering of two women, through their fantasies and jarred gyrations, we are urged to learn - really learn – to love one another in all our similarities and differences and to work for peace and reconciliation.
Fugue Fugitive is a complete and courageous performance which we all need to witness for ourselves to ponder, reflect and react.
Martin S. Williams
An expression of distress, injustice and human suffering
The company description for Carboot Theatre describes them as “challenging the limitations of screen and monosyllable, and rediscovering expression through language”.
Those who prefer a clear narrative explanation to appreciate theatre will undoubtedly find this a challenging production. A recorded background competes for your attention with live performance on the stage and neither of these streams of emotive words and phrases follows a standard structure.
If you do connect with the performance you may, as I did, find yourself powerfully moved and emotionally overwhelmed by the expression of distress, injustice and human suffering.
Drawn from the real words and experience of 1990’s Bosnia in conflict, this drama may bring you closer to that terrifying experience than you had ever expected to be.
This is probably going to be one of my personal Fringe highlights and I recommend you to witness it.
Richard Drake