ISLAND

The title ISLAND is a lonely man with his desires, obsessions, longings.

In our interpretation, THE TEMPEST of William Shakespeare is happening in the imagination of a demented old man, Prospero, who, chained in his prison, is dreaming and stargazing. Man betrayed and cheated lives only in dreams, which he creates himself. Prospero's imagination is poetic and magnetic. He creates all the characters that surround him; he is all of them at once, and he does not see any of them at all. Imagination, just like the myth, creates music and dance. The narrative of the old man is illogical, suggestive and cannot be easily described. Prospero tells about experiences, dreams which can not be fulfilled and the world that does not exist. Everything has a form of dancing and musical poems. For twelve years, Prospero has been a prisoner and he tells twelve musical poems. The wonderful choreography is accompanied by acquiring vocal polyphony. A team of 19 performers shows the interior of the mad mind of a lonely old man.

"The Tempest" is the last of Shakespeare's dramatic texts written from the perspective of leaving behind the world. It is a metaphor and a fable at the same time. A performance full of sadness and nostalgia is originally created by the actors of the Song of the Goat Theater together with the dancers of acclaimed choreographer Iván Pérez (2016), and later revised with the dancers of the Dance Theatre Heidelberg and the choir of Theater und Orchester Heidelberg (2023). ISLAND is directed by Grzegorz Bral, and the author of the songs and drama is Alicja Bral. Music prepared by Jean Claude Acquaviva, Maciej Rychły mixed together with traditional Georgian songs.