The Melancholy of the Tourist
UK Premiere
An intimate, magical meditation on how we engage with the world.
How long does it take for a travellers’ destination to become a sought-after paradise and then for it to fall out of fashion? The Melancholy of the Tourist is a de-construction of the moments and objects that chart the rise and fall of a mental fantasy, a gallery of images from landscapes that no longer exist or perhaps never did.
Using a technique they call ‘theatre of documentary objects’, this inventive Spanish/Mexican company combine light and shadow, paper and tin, slide projectors, pulleys and a raft of wonderfully handmade and thoroughly analogue contraptions to ask questions about the dislocation between our imaginations and reality.
'This poetic machine produces a parade of photographs, postcards, toys, miniatures, and music that arise through whispers... creating intimate ceremonies that sprout in small spaces.’El Pais
Co-produced by: Oligor y Microscopía, Iberescena, Temporada Alta, Grec Barcelona, Le Parvis, Patronato Municipal de las Artes Escénicas y de la Imagen de Zaragoza, Pyrenart.Interreg Porctefa
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