Icarus 2.0
2009
Hidden away on a council estate a reclusive geneticist has grown himself a son in a jar, in the hope that he might teach it to fly.
'In a council house or a rented flat in London, there's that feeling of being a caged animal. The piece captures that ambition to escape, but if you try you might fall.' Matt Ball.
Created with Matt Ball, Jamie Wood, Sebastian Lawson, Susannah Henry & Claire Keating.
Edinburgh Pleasance & CPT
"...generous, elegiac and heart-stoppingly emotional [...] As a piece of theatre, Icarus 2.0 soars." The stage.
'The set and staging is extravagant and gorgeous, the acting a combination of balletic physicality and heart-wrenching emotion, and the production values on the whole piece are rightly high, as nearly each piece of set slots together to form a remarkably cohesive whole.' Chris Hislop. **** Fringe Review
Hidden away on a council estate a reclusive geneticist has grown himself a son in a jar, in the hope that he might teach it to fly.
'In a council house or a rented flat in London, there's that feeling of being a caged animal. The piece captures that ambition to escape, but if you try you might fall.' Matt Ball.
Created with Matt Ball, Jamie Wood, Sebastian Lawson, Susannah Henry & Claire Keating.
Edinburgh Pleasance & CPT
"...generous, elegiac and heart-stoppingly emotional [...] As a piece of theatre, Icarus 2.0 soars." The stage.
'The set and staging is extravagant and gorgeous, the acting a combination of balletic physicality and heart-wrenching emotion, and the production values on the whole piece are rightly high, as nearly each piece of set slots together to form a remarkably cohesive whole.' Chris Hislop. **** Fringe Review
