WHEN IN ROAM
Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli
Mon 17 June
Where is home? In an ever-changing society, the boundary of home has become blurred. This performance by choreographer and artistic director Thania Acaron aims to explore such an idea. The minimalist staging presents a blank canvas for each performance, inventing its own ‘home’ with a change of setting each time a new performance occurs. The multi-modality of the show emphasises the many ways in which the word ‘home’ can be interpreted.
Where we consider to be ‘home’ is hugely subjective, whether it’s a nation, a town or a physical house. Acaron aims to reveal this through movement and celebration of language: Welsh, Spanish, French and English are all spoken within the performance, celebrating the cultural and societal differences of what we define as home. That multilingualism is something of a mini-trend in Welsh theatre at the moment, with recent productions such as Y Brain/Kargalar at Chapter and Shooting Rabbits at Sherman making use of more than just Welsh and English.
Acaron’s previously roamed and toured across Puerto Rico, Madrid and Scotland, so When In Roam is certainly an apt name. Home can be found anywhere, and the need to roam is an instinct within us all.
Tickets: £12/£10. Info: 0845 2263510 / www.theatrausirgar.co.uk
words Gareth Mitchell