Wilful Forgetting (2013)
Reviews:
Herald Review Performer & Video Donna Rutherford
Writers Donna Rutherford and Martin O'Connor Music arrangement and composition Pawet Bignell Guest musicians Aileen Gobbi (violin) and Tom MacNiven (trumpet & flugelhorn) Technician & Programmer James Gardner Lighting Designer Paul Sorley Post-production Video Bevis Evans-Teusch Scenic Artist Rebecca Hamilton Show Photographs Tommy Ga-Ken Wa |
TRON THEATRE
6 - 9 NOV 2013 "There's something touchingly honest going on here, both in its depiction of necessary estrangement and in Rutherford's understated delivery...this snapshot of sons, mothers and mothers' mothers becomes the most loving of purgings." (The Herald) I’m looking through you, where did you go I thought I knew you, what did I know You don’t look different, but you have changed I’m looking through you, you’re not the same. Donna Rutherford and Martin O’Connor invite you into the heart of the home for some nourishment. Through a series of family photographs we zoom in on a son and a mother keeping a tight hold on expectations. Overheating in nylon polo-necks that clash with knitted tank-tops we will outgrow. New images upstage the old ones. Borderlands of memory with disappointment around the corner... Pull up a good strong chair and sit around the kitchen table... Do you think we can do that, do you? Just this once? Can we sit down properly, like a ‘normal’ family? Along the way the following writers, commentators & psychologists looked at were: Isabelle Allende, Margaret Atwood, Seamus Heaney, Verena Kast, Annette Kuhn, Martha Langford, DH Lawrence, Marcel Proust and Daniel L Shacter. |