Under Glass by Clod Ensemble

Fuel presents

9 - 13 Nov Tues 7pm & 8pm, Wed - Sat 7pm, 8pm & 9pm

Studio £8

** Please note Under Glass is an installation/promenade type performance, therefore no seating is provided. Rather, you move around the space watching the performance. For any access requirements please contact the box office on 0117 987 7877**

Under Glass is a performance which takes place within a series of glass jars and cabinets. Blending visual imagery, choreography, an original score by Paul Clark and text by TS Eliot Award-winning poet Alice Oswald, Under Glass is an animated exhibition of human life.

At once medical laboratory, museum exhibit and gallery, Under Glass lifts characters out of the hurly burly of everyday life and frames their moments of solitude; examining human beings attempting, with varying success to live within their limits. Each character exists in its own delicate environment: a woman in a jam jar, a shy ‘wallflower’ pinned behind a glass panel, a man clockwatching in his office.

“The quality of the performance is astonishing and unforgettable.” The Scotsman

Under Glass is a new performance piece by the Clod Ensemble, directed by Suzy Willson, composed by Paul Clark. It is a cabaret of performance pieces, which exist within life-size glass cabinets or jars. Each piece features a different performer (who may be a dancer, a performance artist or an actor), a different original musical score and a distinct visual environment and movement language. The glass containers themselves are specially commissioned pieces, made-to-measure for each performer and each performance space. Examining ideas of claustrophobia and belonging, Under Glass is an exploration of how we can live within our limits.

Winner of the Total Theatre Award: Visual & Physical Theatre 2009.

A Sadler’s Wells Commission.

Performed by Olwen Fouéré, Sachi Kimura, Ramona Nagabczynski and Jason Thorpe

Directed by Suzy Willson                                               

Music by Paul Clark

Lighting by Hansjörg Schmidt                                                                       

Design by Sarah Blenkinsop 

Poetry by Alice Oswald  

Photography by Manuel Vason

Produced by Fuel