What happens to our brain, body and heart when we ‘fall in love’? Why are we attracted to another person? Is romantic love real? What happens when that initial passion fades? Elinor Randle and Tmesis Theatre aim to explore this question in their new production Variations of the Heart at the Unity Theatre on November 9th as part of this year’s Homotopia.
Part of a triple bill for Homotopia, the night of new works featuring all female dancers (with Gary Clarke’s Cameo Cookie and Carlos Pons Guerra’s Young Man!), Variations of the heart is a passionate duet between two women, a story of the human heart, it’s power, and it’s many variations.
Choreographed by Elinor Randle with text from Chris Fittock, Variations of the Heart is firstly inspired from Meike Holzmann and Egle Mei’s musical project, ‘Heart Variations for String Quartet’; an incredible story of over thirty people’s hearts, this piece will be accompanied by music from the project, played live by a string quartet.
Tmesis Theatre, which is based in Liverpool, is critically acclaimed nationally and internationally for their unique and evocative style of physical theatre. Their production of Wolf Red in September 2012 was one of the stand-out performances of the year and fully deserved every plaudit put its way.
Tickets for the show are on sale from the Unity Theatre Box office and are priced at £10 with concessions available at £8.