Unpacked
NO OBVIOUS TRAUMA
Thu 17th September, 8pm
Trains shriek through the night as the memory of a love affair floats through the walls of an isolated institution. A mysterious patient questions her identity and doctors track the fragile line between madness and desire.
In an isolated psychiatric institution, Dr. Weaver is haunted by the memory of a lost love affair. It is 1932, and a new patient arrives with little more than a name tag and a tattered ribbon. Unable to communicate anything of her past, she is assigned to Weaver's colleague Dr. Crawley. But as memories return, identity is mistaken, emotions are kindled and treatment undermined.
Although dealing with serious subject matter, drawing on Freud's work on hysteria and Charcot's catalogue of hysteric imagery, No Obvious Trauma is a gripping and highly entertaining story told with a vibrant combination of visual storytelling, energetic choreography, atmospheric shadows, character and ensemble acting, object animation and puppetry.
"dazzling physical theatre... extraordinarily imaginative"
Scotsman
Tickets: £10/£8