FUEL > Melanie Wilson > Iris Brunette
Melanie Wilson
 Iris Brunette |
A sortie into a curious cityscape of the future past, featuring Iris Brunette: part time traveling refugee, part compassionate voyeur.
Using starkly elegant imagery, tender camaraderie and a dense and elegiac sound score, Iris delicately uncoils the remembrance of a friendship destroyed by the outbreak of war and the unfathomable demise of lost kinship and love.
A warmly mournful and disarmingly engaging piece, inspired by the film 'La Jetée' by Chris Marker.
Commissioned and developed at BACCreated by Melanie Wilson
Iris Brunette will be touring alongside a companion audio piece, Mari Me Archie. A bewitching duet of coincidence and identity. Part documentary, part audio guide, part folk-tale, Mari Me Archie opens a door into a world of kaleidoscopic soundscapes both transportingly exotic and startlingly familiar.
A BAC scratch commission
"Give this girl an audience and make her a star." The Herald, * * * *
"A remarkable poet in word and sound, going straight to the heart of that longing for a last, precious touch of intimacy." Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, * * * *
"There are few more compelling presences than that of Melanie Wilson."
Lyn Gardner, Guardian
Upcoming ShowsHetveem Theater, Amsterdam Fringe Festival
3 - 6 Sept, 6pm and 8pm, +31 (0)20 62011222-30 August 2009, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Medical School (for full details of the Fuel at the Fringe Edinburgh programme, click here)
4-5 September 2009, Ustinov, Theatre Royal Bath
14-17 September 2009, Dublin, Absolut Fringe Players Theatre
30 September 2009, Newbury, New Greenham Arts
2 October 2009, Cambridge, The Junction
6-7 October 2009, Coventry, Warwick Arts Centre
9-10 October 2009, Crewe, Axis Arts Centre
11 November 2009, Liverpool, The Bluecoat
20-21 November 2009, Bristol, Tobacco Factory Theatre
For more information email alice@fueltheatre.com
