'"We are pleased to be hosting:
LEAVING
A dancer. A chess player. An asylum seeker. A mad woman.
Split Soul Dance Theatre in association with Blue Bud Stage Company is bringing new work Leaving by Sarah O’Hanlon to the Greenwich Playhouse. “We’re very excited,” says producer-performer Julia M Barnett. “Greenwich is such a vibrant area and the Playhouse is a wonderful space.”
The piece combines physical theatre and animated scenography to illustrate its poetic text which depicts stories from the lives of four women – a dancer, a chess player, an asylum seeker and a mad woman. Each woman is affected by circumstances outside of her control and faced with a decision that will change her future. A mysterious narrator journeys with the audience through the lives of each woman as, one by one, they are set free through the telling of their stories.
Writer Sarah O’Hanlon was awarded Best New Writing at the Buxton Festival Fringe in 2007 for her play Journalist and Hope – which premiered at London’s Institute for Contemporary Arts during The Accidental Festival 2007. The Buxton Fringe Review said of it: “This is a touching and intriguing piece of physical theatre.”
Split Soul commissioned Leaving to be written as a one-woman show for performer Julia M Barnett, who also played the Journalist in Journalist and Hope for which she was nominated for the Best Actor award at the Buxton Festival Fringe 2007.
Split Soul was formed in the spring of 2006 by Julia M Barnett and Sarah Way as a platform to create emotive and beautiful work based in and around movement and dance. Split Soul’s inaugural performance – Trio from the Dreaming Tree – was co-choreographed by Julia M Barnett and Sarah Way and received a nomination for Best Dance at the Buxton Festival Fringe 2006.
Blue Bud Stage Company was formed by Rose Lewenstein and Marianne Permaul in the spring of 2005, with the goal of creating challenging new work that promotes young emerging practitioners.
These two companies have come together for the first time to produce Leaving. Rose Lewenstein directs, with scenography by Eva Liparova, an original score by Max Perryment, and choreography by Split Soul’s own Sarah Way."
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