[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]An extraordinary theatrical spectacular which literally uses water as the stage will be drifting into Staffordshire this summer. Water Fools is by French performance company ILOTOPIE who specialise in creating astonishing aquatic spectales, and who have somehow mastered a tecnique which allows their actors and performance artists to to literally perform on the surface of water, in an almost magical, and dreamlike way.
Lyn Gardener, the highly respected UK Theatre Blogger said of the show in her Guardian theatre column:
“If Lewis Carroll had turned his absurdist vision to street arts, teaming up with Salvador Dali and Hieronymus Bosch, he might have come up with a strange, dreamy, floating spectacle Water Fools created by French company ilotopie, who literally walk on water”
The show, which will take place on the lake at Central Forest Park in Stoke-on-Trent, forms the headline summer event for the ongoing rollout of sterling outdoor events from Appetite Stoke, a Creative People and Places / Arts Council initiative created to enagage more people from North Staffordshire in the arts.
About The Show
Water Fools is an outstanding outdoor show that will be performed entirely on the surface of the lake at Central Forest Park.
French performance wizards, Ilotopie have won the hearts of thousands with their beautiful shows on the streets and waterways of cities and towns the world over. Their latest creation, Water Fools uses light, sound and pyrotechnics to tell their story.
Everyday objects are transformed into mythical creatures, as our hero finds himself on an odyssey of epic proportions. Watch as cars pull caravans, children are brought out for walks in their strollers and gods march into battle – all ingeniously floating on the surface of the water.
These water surfaces, blank theatre stages, open the unconstructed urban breaths and transport the city dweller as to the edge of the urban jungle.
Performers walking on water, floating cars, bikes, and beds, almighty fireworks and astonishing original music will combine to create a dreamlike painting set against the unique backdrop of Stoke-on-Trent, and with no spoken word, the show is fully accessible to almost everyone.
About Ilotopie
Ilotopie is a collective of actors, sculptors, musicians and creators. Over the past two decades they have grown to become one of France’s best loved street theatre companies surprising and delighting audiences with their whimsical and spectacular creations.
Their grand aquatic water productions are one of a kind. In bringing them to the watery stage, the company have spent years resolving the innumerable technical difficulties in order to allow the actor to preserve his expressive force and freedom of movement on the liquid element.
Outdoor Spectaculars in Staffordshire
Since 2013 Appetite have being serving up a series of world-class performances for people to enjoy in North Staffordshire and each year have brought a spectacular showcase event to the city, offering something completely different to local audiences. Over recent years Appetite’s showcase events have included the incredible contemporary circus show Bianco by NoFit State Circus, Wired Aerial Theatre’s As The World Tipped and The Bell by Periplum. Most recently The Enchanted Chandelier by French Company Transe Express came to town where musicians and performers dangled 50 metres in the sky.
Dominique Noel, Artistic Director of Ilotopie says, ‘We spent time researching many water based locations in the area, so I got to know Stoke-on-Trent quite well. I even managed to get to the 6Towns Radio Awards and sampled some lovely Staffordshire Oatcakes too. We have performed Water Fools all over the world including Chicago, Moscow, Sydney, Buenos Aires and Singapore but we are so excited that we’ll be able to perform our unique show in this unique city. We have met some wonderful people in Stoke-on-Trent already so we’re very excited to share this magnificent performance with them”
Karl Greenwood, Appetite Project Director said: “Events like Water Fools coming to Stoke-on-Trent clearly demonstrates our big ambitions as a programme and as a city, showing a real belief and ability that we can deliver world-class events to a high standard and more importantly that local people really do want to see something out of the ordinary. As Stoke-on-Trent is gearing up to bid for the UK City of Culture in 2021, I strongly believe events like Water Fools cause ripples across the rest of the country and shine a big spotlight on the city to say look at what we’re doing here in Stoke-on-Trent”
When is It
Water Fools drifts into Staffordshire in the summer of 2017 on two consecutive nights on 28th and 29 July 2017
Tickets are now on sale, with special Early Bird offers running through the month of April. Details below
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WHERE
Chell Street
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
ST1 6BD
WHEN
Thursday 28 to 29 July 2017
9:15pm (doors at 7:45pm)
Tickets
Early Bird offer (up until April 30 2017)
Standard £7.50 / Concession £5.50 / Child £3.50
Family of 4 £17.95 / Family of 6 £21.95 / Family of 6 £25.95
Prices will go up after April 30th 2017
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MORE ABOUT ILOTOPIE
Formed in 1979. We’ve developed artistic creations and cultural actions in the widest transversal mix of disciplines imaginable. In the confines of our region, at the mouth of the Rhone river where it melds into the Mediterranean sea, iliotopie thus emerged from an island in the mythic Camargue region of southern France; ever since, the waters so present have inseminated a feverish activity to a handful of insulars.
As if to preserve this singular point of view towards the world, we develop artistic spheres and explorations that take you from the ultimately intimate to the ultimately planetary: from Port Saint Louis to Seoul, from the marshes of the Camargue to Russian port towns, our very original form of culture thus circulates, caressing imaginaries, exposing the democratic strength of what public spaces can offer, traveling our theater with its’ universal language, speaking not word, holding richness in sense and inspiring utopias.
You can find out much more about Ilotopie at their website
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