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Croon
A cross-disciplinary project Conceived by Johnny Hanrahan & Daphne Wright
Cork, 3rd – 7th February 2004
A choir in a capsule, a melancholy crooner, a stilt-walker navigating between glistening pillars, a Gollum-like technician tending to a ruined factory purpose-built for this event in a vast industrial warehouse. These are a few images from the multi-disciplinary visual/theatrical promenade event developed jointly by the sculptor Daphne Wright and writer/director Johnny Hanrahan in a radical attempt to fuse the strengths of theatrical performance and visual art.
Croon is a site-specific piece, with large scale sculptural installations in three different buildings in the vicinity of McCurtain Street. At each site is a performance lasting 25-30 minutes and the small audiences (max 25) move from one site to the other in sequence.
Though each of the episodes appears at first to be radically different to the others the creators have developed an overall visual and dramatic logic for the piece, which unifies the experience as a whole for audiences.
‘Wright’s structural work is visionary, she handles her materials with confidence and flair’
Mary Leland, The Irish Times.
‘…a battle between classical ideas of beauty and our inner yearning for harmony, and tawdry contemporary reality…’ Alannah Hopkins, Irish Theatre Magazine.
‘It is a living, breathing piece of art that draws you in and keeps you captivated while playing with the mind…. a challenging experience that will linger in the mind like a vivid dream’ Liam Heylin, Evening Echo.
‘The blurring of the boundaries between theatre and the visual arts was then at the very heart if the project as the visual realm took cues from the text-the theatrical element utilising imagery to elucidate its text’
Mark Ewart, The visual Artist’s news sheet.
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