Acclaimed artistic Ruxy Cantir is about to take her tragicomic solo present Pickled Republic on a Scottish tour this Autumn, offered by Scissor Kick. Puppets, produce, and phantasmagoria mix on this confidently absurd manufacturing, as audiences are invited to relish in an unearthly cross between Eugene Ionesco absurdism and David Lynch smoky thriller that explores despair and function in probably the most ungraceful means.
Welcome to the jar – right here, tragedy floats within the salty environment. As the contents of the jar start to go off and decay, we meet a collection of pickled greens – together with a pickled tomato and a potato-headed lounge singer – who come to life to ask main existential questions and supply ridiculous solutions. As putrefaction engulfs the jar, the characters lament on lives not lived, reckoning with their inevitable plight via their final hurrahs. Be ready to witness the chaotic vitality of the seek for which means and attempt to discover the connection between these decaying greens and your personal existence. You’ll go away all stirred up, however none the wiser.
Moldova-born, US-trained, and Glasgow-based visible theatre maker Ruxy strives to create an imaginative, intensity-filled surroundings that utilises the facility of bodily theatre to confront the overwhelming emotions of dread and despair in a humorous and inquisitive method. Since transferring to Scotland in 2015, Ruxy has been awarded quite a few grants to develop new indoor and out of doors work, together with the 2021 APA/Eden Court/Capital Theatres Early Years Christmas Performance Commission, the Inaugural SURGE Street Theatre Bursary, and the ScotRail Foundation/Foundation Scotland Cultural Arts Grant. After the success of their Scottish tour of Two in a Barrel, Ruxy and Scissor Kick are delighted to be collaborating once more on Pickled Republic, which has been awarded Creative Scotland Touring Funding for Theatre and Dance for this Autumn tour.
Ruxy Cantir says, Pickled Republic was impressed by an absurdly humorous occasion at a funeral in my native Moldova, which was a reminder that we reside in a consistently paradoxical house the place tragedy and comedy collide. The present explores our fixed seek for which means and function alongside our ridiculous reactions to the fact of demise.
After years of feeling adrift and afraid throughout the pandemic, we’d like some catharsis to cope with some main reckonings the pandemic has unearthed. This fully bonkers present set as a cabaret in an more and more mouldy jar with pickled veg characters offers a humorous and outrageous world the place we are able to safely wrestle with questions the pandemic has raised for a few of us: what offers which means and function to our lives? And what’s our relationship to time passing vis-a-vis (un)fulfilment?
This absurdly riotous cabaret explores our search and wish for function, teaming creative clowning, puppetry, and masks theatre to create a stirring spectacle of pitch-black humour and pulpy carnage. Come and witness a efficiency that guarantees extra greens per pound than any present grocery store – there’s no want to fret about inflation when there’s disintegration.
Tour Dates
Thursday twenty first September 2023 Civic House, 26 Civic Street, Glasgow, G4 9RH
Saturday twenty third September 2023 Byre Theatre, Abbey St, St Andrews, KY16 9LA
Saturday thirtieth September 2023 Carradale Village Hall, Kintyre, PA28 6SB
Thursday fifth October 2023 The Lemon Tree, 5 West North St, Aberdeen, AB24 5AT
Sunday eighth October 2023 The Rockfield Centre, Rockfield Brae, Oban, PA34 5DQ
Wednesday eleventh October 2023 An Tobar & Mull Theatre, Argyll Terrace, Tobermory, PA75 6PB
Friday thirteenth – Saturday 14th October Assembly Roxy, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9SU
Wednesday 18th October 2023 Joan Knight Studio, Perth Theatre, Mill Street, Perth, PH1 5HZ
Saturday twenty first October 2023 Dunoon Burgh Hall, 195 Argyll St, Dunoon, PA23 7DD
Tuesday twenty fourth October 2023 Reconnect Regal Theatre, 24 – 34 North Bridge St, Bathgate, EH48 4PS
Thursday twenty sixth October 2023 Dumfries and Galloway Arts at Eskdalemuir Community Hub, The School, Eskdalemuir, Langholm, DG13 0QJ
Saturday twenty eighth October 2023 Strathearn Arts, 6 Comrie Street, Crieff, PH7 4AX
Running Time 50 minutes
Age Recommendation 14+
Images: Andy Caitlin
