Newcastle's Live Theatre launch new show by Associate Artist gobscure
A North East based artist is bringing their latest piece to Live theatre in Newcastle this week
Live theatre in Newcastle is welcoming the newest piece by their associate artist - a celebration of words, stories and a river.
"yu have already survived" is a combination of installation, theatre and music, from creator gobscure.
"Some rivers have rights, the afon wysg (River Usk) has riots"
The piece explores how the river shaped them as a person, and saved their life, leading to wider horizons.
gobscure tells us they hope the audience will take something heartfelt from seeing the work:
"That place that you went when your horizons first expanded, your mind just explodes out
"and that's a great thing, all of a sudden you can literally, mentally, metaphorically see just wider horizons.
"I'm not sure about the state of the world right now, i'm not sure about what's happening out there - but telling stories in spaces and trying to invite folks in...
"It doesn't matter whether you see yourself as an arts goer, a theatre goer - it's a safe space, it's accessible. "
Jack McNamara, artistic director of Live Theatre says of gobscures work:
“gobscure’s work is really like nothing else. political, emotional, theatrically daring, visually and aurally astonishing. their inner world is huge.
"The ideas begin small but expand outwards to wild heights. Their imagination and skill could fill our theatre ten times over.”
More information from gobscure themselves describes the show as:
"a solo theatre show celebrating how the afon wysg / river usk (flowing through south wales), is in our blood, and has saved our life. some rivers have rights, this one has riots (site of britains last insurrection). journey upstream with us from that city of insurrection (cas newydd / newport); visit where we wrote our first poem in childhood (wales now has the right to play enshrined in law); our first punk gig (as audience member defying sick-chiatry); defynnog yew tree that defies science (the oldest heartwood has rotted so it cannot be accurately carbon-dated); red kites almost wiped out in the 1970’s clung on here, to successfully rewild all over; how welsh poppies taught us post-traumatic growth is possible; and out onto mountain at river’s source that first literally widened our horizons. epic & multi-layered, you have already survived combines our lived experience with collective, historical, natural, political & mythical elements in playful & childlike reclaiming with wonder/wandering. this watercourse teaches post-trauma-growth is possible"