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Dyddiadau Amgen

i-witness

Volcano Theatre

i-witness is a new show inspired by the writings ofWG Sebald. 10 years after the publication in English of The Rings of Saturn, Volcano invites you on an extraordinary journey in the writer's footsteps.

Although his actual journey covers only one small corner of England, the book is an adventure of memory and association that reaches across the globe and through hundreds of years of history. Every place and every object leads us somewhere else.

From crumbling English seaside resorts, we are transported deep into the Belgian Congo or the silk houses of a Chinese Empress. But the exotic charm of these journeys is always unsettled by some epic brutality just around the corner or below the surface, with the strange effect that this detached and scholarly prose rages with violence on every page.

The show is not just about walking, or Suffolk, or what Europeans did in the Congo. It is also about connections and traces, and finding beauty under the ever-present threat of destruction. It brings alive the deeply unsettling effect of the book - to move you and agitate you. An intimate, up-close experience - using video, dance and the sheer emotional power of live performance to lead you through strange landscapes and follow their clues,
signs and connections. i-witness is brutal, meditative, and darkly funny theatre that explores what it means to live in a world full of the echoes and whisperings of the past.

£9 (£8) CC £8.50 (£7.50) Groups £7