A event on Saturday 14th May. The event starts at 15:00.
*bbb*The Land’s Heart is Greater Than Its Map by Olivia Furber & Ramzi Maqdisi*/bbb*
Age guidance: 12+
Running time: 70mins
Departure point: Bristol Old Vic
Performance Schedule
Saturday 14 May - Sunday 22 May
3pm, 6pm, 8.30pm on Weekends // 4pm & 7pm Weekdays
There is a far away city which cannot be named. Its people are silenced and its landscape is disappearing.
In this distant city, daily life is stranger than fiction: you can see the sea but are forbidden to touch it, being honest is illegal and those with ancestral connections to the city are forbidden to enter it.
Propelled by a need to tell the city’s story before it is forever forgotten, a resident records the stories behind his favourite places.
This alternative guided tour allows you to wander through the streets of his hometown. Your journey to this distant city will take place within the streets of Bristol and requires only comfortable shoes and an open imagination.
The content of the stories that our resident tour guide will tell you are not what you might expect; they do not focus on historic landmarks and holy sites. Instead his chosen 'stops' on the tour are at the hidden and seemingly insignificant areas and sites of memory that one holds dearly when the threat of exile and erasure hangs over your head.
An emotional, cartographic resistance piece which actively questions who has the right to claim the history of places and objects and how we can imaginatively salvage shrinking landscapes.
"The Land's Heart Is Greater Than Its Map is an important piece. With wit and imagination, it takes us on a tour of two places at once. It is beautifully performed, powerful and left me thinking about it for days afterwards" Matt Adams, Artist, Director Blast Theory
"A travelogue of place that also maps multi-dimensions of history and feeling; an invitation to share experience and a provocation to look beyond surfaces" Claire Brennan, The Observer
Accessibility Information
BSL performance
Sunday 15 May: 3pm
Credits
The artistic concept was initially conceived through a research workshop in 2018 with Meta Theater, Villa Waldberta and IETM.
The piece was developed with the support of The British Council, Hoch X, The Albany, Ensemble 52 and the Blast Theory Residency Programme and premiered in London at the Barbican centre in August 2021 as part of Shubbak Festival. It was also part of the pilot Horizon programme in 2021 - an international showcase celebrating visionary performance made in England.
Olivia Furber & Ramzi Maqdisi
RAMZI MAQDISI is a Palestinian filmmaker, writer and actor. His work addresses the minute and everyday aspects of life under occupation. Using subtle, subversive and visual storytelling, he seeks to convey an experience of the overwhelming nature of occupation through zooming in on the tiny details that we all, as humans, share.
OLIVIA FURBER is a theatre director and writer working across theatre and installation; indoors, outdoors and in places you weren’t expecting to find her. She trained in movement direction at Opera North and has gone on to direct, assistant direct and deliver dramaturge work for York Theatre Royal, London International Festival of Theatre, Ensemble52 and Theatre Hullabaloo.
http://www.oliviafurber.com/about.html
Entry requirements:
Age guidance: 12+
Running time: 70mins
Departure point: Bristol Old Vic
Performance Schedule
Saturday 14 May - Sunday 22 May
3pm, 6pm, 8.30pm on Weekends // 4pm & 7pm Weekdays
There is a far away city which cannot be named. Its people are silenced and its landscape is disappearing.
In this distant city, daily life is stranger than fiction: you can see the sea but are forbidden to touch it, being honest is illegal and those with ancestral connections to the city are forbidden to enter it.
Propelled by a need to tell the city’s story before it is forever forgotten, a resident records the stories behind his favourite places.
This alternative guided tour allows you to wander through the streets of his hometown. Your journey to this distant city will take place within the streets of Bristol and requires only comfortable shoes and an open imagination.
The content of the stories that our resident tour guide will tell you are not what you might expect; they do not focus on historic landmarks and holy sites. Instead his chosen 'stops' on the tour are at the hidden and seemingly insignificant areas and sites of memory that one holds dearly when the threat of exile and erasure hangs over your head.
An emotional, cartographic resistance piece which actively questions who has the right to claim the history of places and objects and how we can imaginatively salvage shrinking landscapes.
"The Land's Heart Is Greater Than Its Map is an important piece. With wit and imagination, it takes us on a tour of two places at once. It is beautifully performed, powerful and left me thinking about it for days afterwards" Matt Adams, Artist, Director Blast Theory
"A travelogue of place that also maps multi-dimensions of history and feeling; an invitation to share experience and a provocation to look beyond surfaces" Claire Brennan, The Observer
Accessibility Information
BSL performance
Sunday 15 May: 3pm
Credits
The artistic concept was initially conceived through a research workshop in 2018 with Meta Theater, Villa Waldberta and IETM.
The piece was developed with the support of The British Council, Hoch X, The Albany, Ensemble 52 and the Blast Theory Residency Programme and premiered in London at the Barbican centre in August 2021 as part of Shubbak Festival. It was also part of the pilot Horizon programme in 2021 - an international showcase celebrating visionary performance made in England.
Olivia Furber & Ramzi Maqdisi
RAMZI MAQDISI is a Palestinian filmmaker, writer and actor. His work addresses the minute and everyday aspects of life under occupation. Using subtle, subversive and visual storytelling, he seeks to convey an experience of the overwhelming nature of occupation through zooming in on the tiny details that we all, as humans, share.
OLIVIA FURBER is a theatre director and writer working across theatre and installation; indoors, outdoors and in places you weren’t expecting to find her. She trained in movement direction at Opera North and has gone on to direct, assistant direct and deliver dramaturge work for York Theatre Royal, London International Festival of Theatre, Ensemble52 and Theatre Hullabaloo.
http://www.oliviafurber.com/about.html
Entry requirements: