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Studio: Feral

This event has now finished Until Oct 24 2009 New Wimbledon Theatre, The Broadway, SW19 1QG Full details & map

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Posted: Fri Oct 16 2009

Writer/director Toby Clarke decided to create a piece about a boy wishing to live his life as a cat before researching reasons why this might occur. Thus action is more important than explanation of autism in a work that drifts eerily clear of social realism.

Matthew, a young autistic man, hires Sebastian, an artist, to paint his walls. The work does not go smoothly, with Matthew snapping at Sebastian every time the painting deviates from his very specific vision. They reconcile, but further complications arise: Matthew wishes to live as a cat in this new environment, and his reasons for doing so seem bound up in an opaque history with Sebastian. With its disconcerting washes of sound, intentionally stilted pauses, black humour and grungy puppet depiction of Matthew's inner feline, 'Feral' creates a discombobulated little world in which Matthew's idiosyncrasies seem as reasonable as anything else that happens. It may not be meant to feel quite so divorced from reality, but as a surreal mood piece, 'Feral' floats beautifully in its own void.

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