The Upcoming
  • Culture
    • Art
    • Cinema
      • Movie reviews
      • Film festivals
    • Food & Drinks
      • News & Features
      • Restaurant & bar reviews
      • Interviews & Recipes
    • Literature
    • Music
      • Live music
    • Theatre
    • Shows & On demand
  • Fashion & Lifestyle
    • Accessories
    • Beauty
    • News & Features
    • Shopping & Trends
    • Tips & How-tos
    • Fashion weeks
  • What’s On
    • Art exhibitions
    • Theatre shows
  • Tickets
  • Join us
    • Editorial unit
    • Our writers
    • Join the team
    • Join the mailing list
    • Fund us
    • Contact us
  • Interviews
  • Competitions
  • Special events
    • Film festivals
      • Berlin
      • Tribeca
      • Sundance London
      • Cannes
      • Locarno
      • Venice
      • London
      • Toronto
    • Fashion weeks
      • London Fashion Week
      • New York Fashion Week
      • Milan Fashion Week
      • Paris Fashion Week
      • Haute Couture
      • London Fashion Week Men’s
  • Facebook

  • Twitter

  • Instagram

  • YouTube

  • Tumblr

  • RSS


CultureTheatre

Adventures in Black and White at Camden People’s Theatre

Adventures in Black and White at Camden People’s Theatre | Theatre review
26 October 2018
Catherine Sedgwick
Catherine Sedgwick
Avatar
Catherine Sedgwick
26 October 2018

Theatre review

Catherine Sedgwick

Adventures in Black and White

★★★★★

Dates

24th October - 26th October 2018

Price

£10-£12

Links & directions

TwitterInstagramFacebookWebsiteMap

The pain of life in exile: what is it like to be displaced, without a way home? Such is the theme of Double Trouble’s Adventures in Black and White, playing at Camden People’s Theatre. Opening the show, an imaginary conversation between the two characters, Lilly (Miriam Gould) and Stasys (Judita Vivas) is indirect, creating a picture of their loss through fragments of feeling, words and images, their evasiveness illustrating the women’s discomfort with their plight.

One in Sussex, the other in Siberia, the exiled are migrants in the 1930s who grow up, grow old and subsequently become their granddaughters, illustrating the generational impact of losing one’s roots and identity. Using storytelling, metaphor, sound, intriguing visuals and representations, improvisation, language, physicality and humour, the piece expressively evokes the emotions of being uprooted, lost, trying to cement selfhood from fragments of lives.

A particularly timely topic, migration is so often an involuntary response to war and devastation. What is generally gleaned from the media – classic mental images of crowds carrying whatever possessions they could salvage, boats full of women and children, young males jumping fences and massive refugee camps – are here transformed into the poignancy of individual experiences and feelings.

Vivas and Gould are themselves granddaughters of immigrants, and the play is inspired by and based on their grandmothers’ diaries. The former’s ancestors were exiled from Lithuania to Siberia by the Russians, and the latter’s family escaped from Vienna to the United States while fleeing the Nazis.

Physical action using props, facial expressions and movement ingeniously expresses the stories of lost children and brave souls as are described in these recorded memories. The simple set highlights these elements, while inventive and impassioned acting by both performers brings their grandmothers’ recollections and sentiments to life.

An unusual and thoughtful work, Adventures in Black and White presents a quirky, innovative, amusing, entertaining, very moving and enlightening experience.

★★★★★

Catherine Sedgwick
Photo: Nina Carrington

Adventures in Black and White is at Camden People’s Theatre from 24th October until 26th October 2018. For further information or to book visit the theatre’s website here.

Related Itemsreview

More in Theatre

And the Rest of Me Floats at Bush Theatre

★★★★★
Catherine Sedgwick
Read More

The Apologists

★★★★★
Mersa Auda
Read More

Orlando

★★★★★
Kari Megeed
Read More

Silently Hoping

★★★★★
Selina Begum
Read More

As a Man Grows Younger at Brockley Jack Studio Theatre

★★★★★
Aidan Milan
Read More

Call Me Vicky at Pleasance Theatre

★★★★★
Ghazaleh Golpira
Read More

Equus at Theatre Royal Stratford East

★★★★★
Francis Nash
Read More

Tartuffe at the National Theatre

★★★★★
Connor Campbell
Read More

Tacenda

★★★★★
Georgie Cowan-Turner
Read More
Scroll for more
Tap

Theatre review

Catherine Sedgwick

Adventures in Black and White

★★★★★

Dates

24th October - 26th October 2018

Price

£10-£12

Links & directions

TwitterInstagramFacebookWebsiteMap

Tickets

Theatre tickets

  • Popular

  • Latest

  • TOP PICKS

  • The Aftermath premiere: On the red carpet with Keira Knightly, Alexander Skarsgård, director James Kent and cast
    Cinema
  • Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don’t Know Me
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Richard Quinn autumn/winter 2019 collection catwalk show for LFW
    Fashion weeks
  • STEVE O SMITH autumn/winter 2019 collection presentation for LFW
    Fashion weeks
  • Elizabethan Treasures at the National Portrait Gallery
    ★★★★★
    Art
  • And the Rest of Me Floats at Bush Theatre
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • The Hole in the Ground
    ★★★★★
    Glasgow
  • The Apologists
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • Fighting with My Family
    ★★★★★
    Glasgow
  • Orlando
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • And the Rest of Me Floats at Bush Theatre
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • The Hole in the Ground
    ★★★★★
    Glasgow
  • The Apologists
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • Fighting with My Family
    ★★★★★
    Glasgow
  • Orlando
    ★★★★★
    Theatre

Instagram

Something is wrong.
Instagram token error.
The Upcoming
Pages
  • Contact us
  • Fund us
  • Join mailing list
  • Join us
  • Our London food map
  • Our writers
  • What, when, why

Copyright © 2018 FL Media Ltd

Agar Agar at Village Underground | Live review
Fontaine’s in Stoke Newington launches martini cocktail menu