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Audiology - Scottish Premiere.
Part of Glasgay Festival.
Company - Pacitti Co.Company website.
Cast - here .
Venue – Tramway Glasgow.
Dates – 5 and 6 November at 8pm.
Run time –1hour 30 mins, no interval
Reviewer - Marisa Farrell

Mesmerising images.

The Glasgay festival sees the Pacitti Company’s latest offering, Audiology, premiere on Scottish shores. The form of the play, which seems improvisational, has actually been choreographed and honed to technical perfection, creating an imaginative and powerful theatre. Audiology exists for the spectator as a series of mesmerising images combined with language and music in a non-narrative form. Stark body sculpture meets nudity meets technology in this aptly scattered piece about temporality, communication, loss of communication, and the anonymity of silence and death. The piece’s stylised dialogue is a series of interferences, broken speech patterns, sign language, and repetitions and is designed to portray spiralling questions of power, knowledge and 'audiology'.

Robert Pacitti, the company's Artistic Director believes this piece 'unfolds like a dream'. I would agree, to an extent, that the image sequences are dream-like, but they do not necessarily fall into place. Neither is the point always lost, but many of the tableaux and sequences hang in the air like mysterious, but emotive, passing thoughts.

The musical score is the Pacitti’s trump card; a mixture of his own songs integrated with the intense, but beautiful Memoryhouse recordings, penned by Max Richter and performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. The score is dark and brooding, and with it the play culminates in a surprising and potentially personal piece. If you can catch the fleeting opportunity to see this performance, then go with an open mind - this must be experienced to be appreciated.
©Marisa Farrell 5th November 2004 – Published on EdinburghGuide.com.

Cast – Robert Pacitti.
Luis Gallo Mudarra.
Valerie Renay.
Sheila Ghelani.
Jeni Draper.
Mark Webber.

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