Trust me for a while is a horror show using dark humor in which three puppeteers delve into the story of an evil ventriloquist puppet with a dubious and disturbing past. How far will we go if a crime goes unpunished?
Plexus Polaire is a unique and award winning French-Norwegian theatre company who, through the use of life-sized puppets, acting, music, light and video, develop visual worlds that bring our most buried feelings to life. They reflect the inner storms of the human heart and explore the unexplained mysteries of life.
Under våren är Skillinge Teaters Restaurang och ginbar öppna:
GINBAREN: Fredag och lördag 17 – 20
KVÄLLSBUFFÈ: Vid konserter, öppnar 18
The Story
Three puppeteers reconstruct what happened when one of them inherited a ventriloquist-puppet with a strange and disturbing story.
It is a three-headed narration where the characters go back and forth in time but at some point, are taken by their own story. When the time catches up on them, it ‘s happening here and now and it is scary. In the beginning the actor-puppeteers are using the puppet to show puppetry. In the end the puppet uses the actor-puppeteers to show the human condition.
Intentional letter
»As a puppeteer, I have always had a double fascination for the ventriloquist dummy.
I am, on the one hand, curious to discover how ventriloquism can be transcended by its own technique and its qualities of pure entertainment to become an art in its own right. I also have a deep respect for the art of ventriloquism, which represents the ultimate, most intimate relationship between the actor-puppeteer and the puppet.
There is something quite terrifying, and at the same time irresistible, about the ventriloquist puppet. The highly recognizable, yet far from realistic human representation of this puppet is the embodiment of our greatest and most fundamental fear: that of innocence hiding horror.
A dead object that comes back to life always has an immediate effect; It takes us back to our first and last fear of dreams, of death and of everything that is incomprehensible, but that nevertheless exists.
I am particularly interested in this use of the ventriloquist dummy who can embody madness. To be propelled straight to the messy, crazy, and fascinating center of the human mind. I want to use the puppet as a support for the unknown and the unspeakable.
Puppets have the unique ability to make us feel something that we can only comprehend on a deeper, almost unconscious level. The puppet can give form to the invisible, a voice to the unspeakable. The internal battle with oneself, without being totally oneself. A part of yourself that you can control – until it suddenly controls you.
I often direct shows where the scenography, lights and projections contribute to a large part in creating the feeling of being transported to another world. But the heart of my work is always the relationship between the actor and the puppet. And in this project, I want to go back to the bone; To remove the skin, flesh and technical magic that I usually depend on in creation. I want to build the story on the raw relationship between a puppet actor and a puppet. A tender but tragic love story featuring a failed magician and a possessed character armed with a knife.»
Yngvild Aspeli, Artistic director of Plexus Polaire
