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.
Please note that this show has elements of participation.
Reviews & Fringefeed Reacts
This show is what you go to the Fringe for. - David O’Brien, The Barefoot Review