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The Clayman                                                           Manchester City of Drama                                          Festival of International Theatre  

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The Clayman                                                           Manchester City of Drama                                          Festival of International Theatre  

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A SITE SPECIFIC INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE  that led the audience through a ritual exploring the line between life and death. Inspired by the story of the Golem and Mexican cultural influences .The show emerged from a devising process that was then set in a poetic narrative written by writer Kevin Fegan.
What the Press said:                                                                                     The ensuing fusion of visual imagery ,fire eating and the wonderful cacophony of percussion and DJ fed dance music celebrates the totality of theatre in knowing hands.............this is the Iron man for the nineties!

Plays International  July 1994.

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FULL REVIEW OF THE CLAYMAN                                                                                             

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FULL REVIEW OF THE CLAYMAN                                                                                             

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as performed as part of

Manchester City of Drama

International Festival

Review from Plays International  July 1994.

Taking theatre back to Ritual .

The Clayman at Upper Campfield Market, another performance Venue to be open in The City of Drama year,is the latest play of Kevin Fegan . Inspired by the work of sculptor Ray Brookes, who designs the show,the Manchester based playwright has teamed up with the director Rikki Tarascas to produce ‘an electrifying piece of contemporary theatre’.

Into a world predominantly populated by oily ,shark toothed psychotics arrives the octomorphic Clay man (magnetic performance from Simon Startin ,an exciting talent )..determined to make sense of this family of social misfits.

The ensuing fusion of visual imagery ,fire eating and the wonderful cacophony of percussion and DJ fed dance music celebrates the totality of theatre in knowing hands.

An elaborately gothicky punk funeral cortege lures the bedazzled audience to the site of the ritual : a circular stage constructed from the earth .This enigmatic start has a salient point to establish.Theatre like the environment is made up of the past (memories ,history ,even dead bodies ,but it has a vitality that determines the future.El Inocente,the company formed for this production intelligently juxtaposes an ecological awareness against a global obsession with materialistic values

This is the Iron Man for the nineties.

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An oven was built from found material

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Performed in The Walled garden in Nottingham &
Manchester City of Drama 94

Inspired by the powerful imagery of Ray Brookes ‘s original sculpture of a man of Clay poet Kevin Fegan and Fine Artist Director Rikki Tarascas joined forces to form the production company El Inocente to assemble a team of artists and performers to create the Clayman a site specific event.

The 3 artists had collaborated previously on projects with the seminal outdoor events company Welfare State International.

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bread was baked

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and given to the audience as part of a ritual

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Clayman -Inside Big top IMG_4409 - Version 2

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Leading the audience - a man drags a rock around the circumference of the walled garden  

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Leading the audience - a man drags a rock around the circumference of the walled garden  

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with reference to the myth of Sisyphus

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where :  amongst the cocophany of percussion and words.

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where :  amongst the cocophany of percussion and words.

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The Clayman was born again

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The central motif of THE SPIRAL as the journey to the  centre of emotion 

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The central motif of THE SPIRAL as the journey to the  centre of emotion 

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was echoed at the conclusion of the journey

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as the audience were led through a spiral maze of fire .