Imagineer presents two free outdoor performances.
Coventry based Imagineer Productions will present two hard hitting outdoor, free performances as part of the City’s Peace Month event, Teatr Biuro Podrozy’s Carmen Funebre (Funeral Song) and Liberty, created by Imagineer Productions.
Both performances will take place on the former Bond Street Car Park, Coventry on Friday 13th November at 6pm, repeated at 8.30pm.
Teatr Biuro Podrozy, co-producers of the legendary Millennium Mysteries return to the city to perform their world famous piece, Carmen Funebre (Funeral Song). An evocative and visually powerful stilt based performance based on interviews with victims of the Bosnian war, the experiences of displaced peoples across the world and the words of war poets W.H. Auden’s brilliant poem Refugee Blues. Carmen Funebre is an uncompromising account of the brutality of war and of man’s inhumanity to man.
Liberty is a performance piece created by Imagineer Productions for the Festival of Imagineers 2015. The performance is the culmination of a project involving 30 young unemployed people from Coventry. As part of the project the young people participated in an Arts and Engineering Project created by Imagineer Productions and funded by a BIS Award (Dept for Business Innovation and Skills). Liberty is an uncompromising ensemble piece about the human struggle for freedom against powerful oppression and dictatorship. Staged simply but with striking visual images this story is one of human endeavour, fortitude, resolution and new beginnings.
Jane Hytch, Chief Executive Imagineer Productions said: “The performance of Carmen Funebre is a universal story of war and it’s devastating consequences for peoples and places – it is particularly poignant and resonant to be playing it in a city which has built a worldwide reputation for peace and reconciliation and at a time when the refugee crisis in Europe worsens daily and more and more displaced people are seeking sanctuary.”