Expect high-energy, playful theatre from The PappyShow this weekend at The North Wall.
“Wait Til The End tackles death and how we approach it culturally,” says Kane Husbands, artistic director of The PappyShow.
“It’s the one thing we know for certain will happen to us, the one thing we all definitely have in common but it’s so hard to talk about!”
It all sounds like weighty stuff, but The PappyShow aims to make work that explores tricky topics in a fun way: “We’ve been using dance, ensemble movement, design and puppetry amongst many other techniques to examine death around the world, iconic cultural deaths, our own relationship to death and people we know who have passed away and want to remember,” Kane continues.
The PappyShow makes theatre that is “devised” rather than scripted – using ideas from everyone in the cast to generate content, which gives their work a truthful, personal quality. The end result always feels like its coming straight from the heart.
Kane elaborates, “Devising also allows you to access a large wealth of individual experiences and perspectives. At the PappyShow, we use our lived experience rather than making characters, and our work often doesn’t focus on one person’s story but lots of different stories.”
So what can audiences expect? “It may be tackling death but it won’t be just a sombre affair, it will encourage you to leave feeling joyous, full of love and life, with some questions about death answered.” Kane smiles.
“They can expect, dance, laughs, and without having to issue a spoiler alert, maybe an ‘elephant in the room’.”
The company has been working with thirty 18-25 year olds for the last three weeks to create the beginnings of a brand new piece of work called “Wait Til the End”.
The show won’t premiere officially until July 2020 in London, but you can catch an early glimpse at The North Wall on August 9-10.
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