Old Hitchcock movies meet live theatre in Ada/Ava
Posted January 31, 2017 6:26 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – A unique kind of live cinema is making its way from across North America from Chicago to Vancouver.
Ada/Ava, presented by Chicago-based Manual Cinema, is live theatre meets puppetry meets the movies.
Co-artistic director and co-creator Sarah Fornace says Ada/Ava is a puppet show with a lot of moving parts.
“When you show up you’re going to see a lot of antiquated technology on stage, over head projectors, and scrap paper. But also, a live band.”
The Actors silhouettes are projected onto the stage to create an old moving-pictures type feel.
“It feels like a live movie,” she says.
“But its all being created in real time below by the actors in silhouette and the paper puppets and the overhead projectors working with the live music. So it feels like going to the cinema and the theatre at the same time.”
Fornace explains a certain thriller king is what sparked the whole idea for the Ada/Ava story.
“It’s really heavily inspired by Hitchcock. It’s like a suspense-thriller. It’s about…two old ladies who live in a lighthouse.”
“At the very beginning of the show one of them dies. And they’re identical twins. The other one kind of goes through this kind of mourning and grief process. She begins to slip from mourning to melancholia. She begins to perceive her own mirror reflection as her twin sister, something outside of herself.”
She says Ada/Ava goes through the psychological break of the character.
“This mysterious carnival appears in her back yard and she goes into the mirror maze in that and she pulls what she thinks is her sister out of the mirror maze. As the show continues, this shadow of herself begins to decay.”
The show is at the Chan Centre February 7th.
Find tickets here.
