How Long is a Piece of String?
‘How Long is a Piece of String?’ invites you to join its collective of artists in a space of curiosity and play, exploring how we experience distance – physically, emotionally, philosophically – and asking what happens when we pull on the thread?
How do we understand the distance between your experience and mine; between what we say and what we mean; between performer and audience; and between body and music?
Mixing arts and crafts with year 12 philosophy, join us in this warm reflection as we spin you a yarn, yank your chain and tug on your heartstrings.
“The theatricality, gentle philosophical discussion and moments of crisis are undeniably successful” - The Scotsman
“Real passion is wielded like a weapon by these performers and I left feeling cared for” - RMITV
Presented by: Live Witness Theatre
Keir Aitken is a Scottish, neurodiverse theatre director with a first-class MA in theatre and philosophy from the University of Glasgow. For a year, he studied and directed in California, before touring Vermont with Bread and Puppet theatre. In 2019 he co-founded and became Artistic Director of Live Witness Theatre, for which his live, digital, and VR theatre has led him to become a guest speaker at Edinburgh College of Performing Arts. In moving to Melbourne, he and Live Witness theatre, have continued creating physical, experimental work that celebrates its own theatricality.
Reviews & Fringefeed Reacts
This show is what you go to the Fringe for. - David O’Brien, The Barefoot Review