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Sugar Statues

  • Show duration: 50 mins
  • Number in company: 2 on road
  • Get-in time: 1 day
  • Type of work/venue/location: Small, black box
  • Available to tour: Autumn 2010

Based upon a journey around Europe, Sugar Statues explores the notions of autobiography, culture, identity and cake.   Using writing for performance as a base for generating material, Sugar Statues interweaves fictional and factual stories, illustrated with sugar to provide an insight into the roots of a Polish family tree.  From horrific tales of the persecution of the Poles to her grandfather’s amazing Polish cake to burnt letters to rotten wedding dress, Sugar Statues is an intimate, touching tale of loss and survival.

Gdy Polska sie rozrywala w rozne kierunki, moj dziadek bezwiednie przeramal moje serce na dwoje.  Jego syn, moj ojciec, zlepil te pekniecia cukrem.  Klucilismy sie na temat jezyka, odrzucilismy cate ksiazki, zgubilismy cale miasta, zalowalismy konca jesieni.

Whilst Poland was tearing herself apart, my grandfather unknowingly tore my heart in two.  His son, my father, pasted together the cracks with sugar.  We argued over language, we denied whole books, we lost entire cities, we mourned the end of autumn.

Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England,

LANWest, hAb, greenroom and Proto-Type Theatre.

Krissi Musiol

Having devised and performed with Escape Theatre, Krissi Musiol is stepping onto the big stage alone in an attempt to explore solo performance and her identity as a performer. Krissi’s performance material is created from autobiographical experiences.

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