Cart Macabre

Cart Macabre explores the potential of Performer/Audience/Spatial relationships in performance. Idea and stage design is by Kruse who also directed the show, wrote the lyrics for the music and composed the original themes on which the final musical composition is based. This praxis based research uses ‘the changing of spatial reality’ as a tool to engage audiences in unusual ways. Performers push carts, in which the audience is seated in complete darkness, through a multi-media environment; peephole holes can be opened and curtains can be raised to reveal a set of different installations. A key concern is how the spaces can be used as a tool for storytelling or how this is applied in the ‘making of meaning’ in the theatre experience. The research follows a historical tradition in experimentation with new forms for staging theatre that emerged within the European and Russian avant-garde of the early twentieth century.

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