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Machinal

Autumn 2024

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Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal by The Blue Rider Company

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We are very excited to announce our upcoming Studio Season which will be inspired by The Blue Rider without any preloaded rules, crossing genre and form.

‘Moving beyond realistic representation…’

Playbox Theatre’s 40 seat intimate studio at The Dream Factory becomes a home for rare and experimental performance in the new season. Taking the theme from The Blue Rider group of artists led by Kandinsky and Marc before World War 1, who sought to explore connections between visual art, music, text, colour moving towards abstraction. They were at the forefront of a new movement to battle the traditional limits of artistic expression.

 
Sophie Treadwell’s MACHINAL is described as a masterpiece in theatrical expressionism with its fast paced episodic action and fractured dialogue the fate of a woman in
A dehumanised society. Based on a real life trail in 1927 when a New York housewife is on trial for the murder of her husband.
 
Questions must be asked. Attitudes confronted. The public galleries at the trial were packed with 1,500 people each day while more clamoured outside. The case was a sensation.
 
In our intimate space, close up seating to the action, The Blue Rider company re-explore the play through an expressionist lens.
 
Age guide 12+
 

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