GDIF 2024 | London’s free, annual outdoor performing arts festival 23 August-8 September 2024
Somente
Part of Greenwich Fair and On Your Doorstep: Eltham
28 & 29 August
Duration: 25 mins
What to Expect: Speech free
Free
In this moving stilt theatre performance, a giant bench provides the poetic setting for a performance exploring loneliness in old age. Bringing social isolation and ageing into larger-than-life focus, this universal story resonates with recent memories of lockdown. Following the performance, audience members are invited to explore the bench and experience the world from a different perspective.
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Access
Site Access
Site Access information is available on the Greenwich Fair page.
Show Access
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
- Assistance Dogs Welcome
Content & Trigger Warnings: The show can be sad and give place to think about your grandparents.
Notes for Audience
There is audience participation for 1 person.
Access content will be available online via your mobile phone. Please bring a charging pack if you are concerned about battery use.
Brochure
Large-print and Easy Read versions of the festival brochure will be available to download in advance or to pick up on the day. Visit our Access page for more information.
Where to find it
Somente will be performed at:
On Your Doorstep: Eltham – Well Hall Pleasaunce, Eltham, SE9 6SN | 28 August, 3.35pm & 6.35pm
Greenwich Fair – King Charles Lawns, Old Royal Naval College, SE10 9NN Greenwich | 29 August, 3:30pm & 6:30pm
Well Hall Pleasaunce, Eltham
28 August
Greenwich
29 August
About the company
TEATRO SÓ is a Portuguese theatre company based in Berlin. It has developed a multidisciplinary approach to circus arts, mask technique, physical theatre, installation and plastic arts. All these components converge to an imaginative, non spoken, visually poetic theatre in which the communication between actor and audience happens through the power of gesture.
Staging, dramaturgy & actor: Sergio Fernandes
Music: Ferdinand Breil
Mask: Bernando Rey & Sergio Fernandes
Costumes: Tuya Hermann
Props: Olga Dumova
Scenery: Eddie Dorner & Luis Lino
Tech: Spiros Paterakis
Supported by
Somente is supported by the Royal Borough of Greenwich,Royal Greenwich Festivals and Arts Council England.