Swimming Pools

By Sleepwalk Collective

BILINGUAL EDITION - EDICI N BILING E ENGLISH Across a series of imagined swimming pools, arranged like the ascending levels of a retro video game, a sequence of intimate monologues are gently teased out, all balanced on a knife-edge between revelation and delirium. As our protagonists whisper their confessions through the voices and bodies of the four women onstage, the swimming pool itself is re-conceived as a kind of manmade utopia, a paradise in miniature, a site of ecstatic miracles and otherworldly beauty. Wrestling fearlessly with the particular demons of the early 21st century - rampant capitalism, toxic masculinity, internet boredom - Swimming Pools is a psychedelic new show about desire and melancholia and how we might live together in the blinding brightness of the future. This special bilingual, parallel-text edition of Swimming Pools also includes the full text for the unperformed work Paradise. Sleepwalk Collective is an award-winning live-art and experimental- theatre group creating fragile, nocturnal performances between the UK and Spain. Their shows include As The Flames Rose We Danced To The Sirens, The Sirens, Domestica, Kourtney Kardashian, and Psychodrama (with Christopher Brett Bailey). 'Few theatre-makers capture the vertiginous thrill and terror of contemporary existence as captivatingly as Sleepwalk Collective' - The Guardian ESPA OL A trav s de una serie de piscinas imaginadas, dispuestas como los niveles ascendentes de un videojuego retro, se desborda una secuencia de mon logos ntimos, todos ellos equilibrados sobre el fino filo que separa revelaci n de delirio. A medida que nuestras protagonistas susurran y ejecutan sus confesiones a trav s de las voces y cuerpos de las cuatro mujeres que habitan la escena, la piscina en s misma vuelve a concebirse como una especie de utop a artificial, un para so en miniatura, un lugar para milagros ext ticos y belleza comprometedora. Luchando intr pidamente con los demonios particulares de principios del siglo XXI: capitalismo desenfrenado, masculinidad t xica, aburrimiento cibern tico y fatiga emocional, Swimming Pools es una nueva pieza psicod lica acerca del deseo y la melancol a, y de c mo parece que podr amos vivir juntos bajo el brillo cegador del futuro. Esta edici n especial biling e de Swimming Pools incluye tambi n el texto completo de la pieza no estrenada Paradise. Sleepwalk Collective es una galardonada compa a de arte en vivo y teatro experimental que crea experiencias esc nicas e ntimos entre el Reino Unido y Espa a. Sus piezas para teatros incluyen As The Flames Rose We Danced To The Sirens, The Sirens, Domestica, Kourtney Kardashian, y Psychodrama (con Christopher Brett Bailey). 'Pocos creadores esc nicos capturan la emoci n vertiginosa y el terror existencial contempor neo de forma tan cautivadora como Sleepwalk Collective' - The Guardian

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1914228200
• ISBN13: 9781914228209
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Salamander Street Ltd.
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 12 years and up