About
Seeing and Dreaming is a new piece of visual theatre that tells the intricate stories of two lives. Visual artist and puppeteer Sarah Fuller and performer and theatre-maker Vanessa Earl are collaborating to bring these people’s stories to life using shadows, objects, puppets and people.
Dorothy is eighty, lives alone in a Victorian house in Birmingham. She has one eye, no teeth and a soft spot for Starsky and Hutch. Michael is eighty-eight. Gnarled and bed ridden, he dreams of dancing and wild horses.
Dorothy’s story is told through the memories of her eight-year old grand-daughter. This is a portrait of older age told through the eyes of a child.
Michael’s story focuses on the last year of his life. This portrait explores his changing states of mind, slipping between dream, reality and memory. This is a man preparing to die.
Dorothy is eighty, lives alone in a Victorian house in Birmingham. She has one eye, no teeth and a soft spot for Starsky and Hutch. Michael is eighty-eight. Gnarled and bed ridden, he dreams of dancing and wild horses.
Dorothy’s story is told through the memories of her eight-year old grand-daughter. This is a portrait of older age told through the eyes of a child.
Michael’s story focuses on the last year of his life. This portrait explores his changing states of mind, slipping between dream, reality and memory. This is a man preparing to die.