Exhibitions - Arddangosfeydd

U-Man Zoo: The Parcel

After 3 years lost in the post, U-Man Zoo are finally re-delivered to Aberystwyth Arts Centre in The Parcel, the company’s first new work since the extraordinary and highly acclaimed Water Banquet. Part labyrinth, part sorting-office, The Parcel is the temporary lodging of stray communications; a place of refuge for the undelivered gift; a holding-house for the essential but fragile transaction of ‘From Me, To You’. Here, broken connections are patched with sticky tape and string; half-stories are glued to possible endings and mis-directed gifts are bubble-wrapped and sent upon their way. If the real human economy is one of giving and receiving, then clearly the postal service needs all the help it can get….. The Parcel is open daily in Gallery 1 as a labyrinthine installation (entry free) and in the evening hosts performances for an audience of 25. Early booking recommended (tel 01970 623232), tickets £7, £5 concession (NB: no evening performance on Monday September 25)

Commissioned by Aberystwyth Arts Centre, with support from ARTS OUTSIDE CARDIFF and the Department of Theatre Film & Television, UWA.

Wedi tair blynedd ar goll yn y post, dychwelir U-Man Zoo o’r ddiwedd i Ganolfan y Celfyddydau Aberystwyth yn The Parcel, gwaith newydd cyntaf y cwmni ers llwyddiant mawr y gwaith anghyffredin Water Banquet. Mae The Parcel yn gyfuniad o labyrinth a swyddfa ddidoli, ac yn gartref dros-dro i lythyrau coll a pharseli strae. Yma, caiff cysylltiadau toredig eu trwsio â thâp a darnau o linyn; caiff hanner-storïau eu gludo i ddiweddebau posib a chaiff anrhegion coll eu lapio mewn papur bybls a’u hanfon i ddiwedd y daith. Os mai rhoi a derbyn yw sail perthynas pobl â’i gilydd, yna mae’n bendant fod angen pob help ar y gwasanaeth post… Mae The Parcel yn agored yn ystod y dydd yn Oriel 1 fel gosodiad labyrinth (mynediad am ddim) a gyda’r nos, perfformiadau i gynulleidfa o 25. Argymhellir archebu’n fuan (tel 01970 623232), tocynnau’n £7, £5 gostyngiadau (DS: dim perfformiad ar nos Lun Medi 25)

Comisiynwyd gan Ganolfan y Celfyddydau Aberystwyth, gyda chefnogaeth gan ARTS OUTSIDE CARDIFF a’r Adran Theatr, Ffilm a Theledu, PCA.