Home, a multi-disciplinary production from Physical Lab's Yorgos Karamalegos, will have its London debut at London's Chisenhale Dance Space from 29 to 31 January 2016, with plans to tour the show, which premièred at Liverpool’s Unity Theatre, nationally and internationally in 2016-17.
Home, a devised performance inspired by Euripides’ Medea, is directed by Yorgos Karamalegos, co-founder of Tmesis Theatre and of Physical Fest, the international annual physical theatre festival which takes place in Liverpool.
This is Karamalegos’s first main production since stepping down as artistic director of Tmesis Theatre in 2010.
He commented, “Home signifies a new beginning in my career after a decade with Tmesis and four years of research in theatre-making through the laboratory. I now feel equipped to experiment with daring ways of creating theatre.
"My ultimate goal is to create deeply engaging theatrical experiences where my audiences can make their own interpretations on the story and to reflect them on aspects of their own lives.
"The world of Home is a poetic landscape that shifts between childhood to adulthood in order to explore the feelings of desire, love, betrayal, suppression and revenge. It’s a piece of theatre that reads the symbolisms behind one of the most famous and powerful characters in the history of drama, as opposed to the literal interpretations.”
Home, based on personal experiences, poetry and imagery, is "a quest, the journey that it is required for the people today—more than ever due to all the multiple distractions that we face from technology to politics—to reach a space of clarity, personal freedom and expression".
The new production has been created in collaboration with Karamalegos’s new ensemble of international artists, Despina Sidiropoulou and Tatiana Spivakova, supported by movement director Pablo Aran Gimeno (one of the main dancers of Pina Bausch Tanztheater), costume designer Venia Palychronaki and lighting designer Marc Williams.