You can now buy tickets for “Dark Matter” performance in March at The Space.
11th – 15th March 2014, 8pm
£8/£6
People say your whole life flashes in front of your eyes before you die but what happens when you have dementia? What do you see? Are these your best memories? What did you keep? Are the memories real or things you have never experienced? Where does the brain go before we die?
‘Dark Matter’ came out of a collaboration between Vertebra Theatre and Outside Puppets collective.
It is an exploration of how people with dementia cope with the end of their life, the end of their memory.
Set in a contemporary Care Home, we use visual and physical storytelling methods including movement and puppetry to descend into the hallucinatory mind of a man “Alfi” who suffers from dementia in the twilight of his life. We follow his past and his hallucinations in order to make sense of his life. On the carer’s (Kate) and nurse’s (Anna) face, Alfi projects important people from his life, like his mother or fiancé Helen. He travels back to Italy when he was a child and years later at the observatory where he spent most of his life, jumping from memory to hallucination, from fantasy to reality.
Dark Matter is a devised-puppetry performance and was conceived wehn the founders of Vertebra Theatre were working as activity coordinators with people with Dementia at a Nursing Home in London.
It is the directorial debut of Mayra Stergiou and writing debut of Eirini Dermitzaki.
Vertebra Theatre Company, is a newly formed company and Dark Matter is its first theatre production.
www.vertebrarts.com
Outside Puppets 
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