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Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster University

This is how I dream it. This is how it feels. And I am not a sailor. I cannot steer a craft. I cannot tie a reef knot. I cannot swim. But still, this is how it ends. I am out here with the lost mariners, the castaways, the shipwrecked and the sea-swallowed.

A new performance made in collaboration with filmmaker Andrew Kötting, composer Graeme Miller and performers Claudia Barton and Joseph Young. the moment I saw you I knew I could love you is about gut feelings; impulse, love and undefended moments. The audience is cast adrift with only stories and half- remembered truths to sustain them; huddled snugly together inside salt encrusted life rafts, while performers, soundscapes and fragments of film drift past. The flotsam and jetsam includes memories of the moon landing, a whale who watches jumpers from Beachy Head, and live ultrasound images that are read like tea leaves to reveal past secrets and future hopes.

6.10pm, 7.20pm, 8.30pm

"There are a thousand beautiful moments: my favourites include a film of a woman floating adrift at sea projected onto a tiny Sealegs packet and a harrowing story of a childhood terrorised by a sword-swallower’s accident. It’s a rich and rewarding experience being immersed in this watery world." Total Theatre

"Film and live performance, soundscape and installation combine in this love story to offer glimpses of an endless horizon as well as intimate close-ups.... There is something immensely wistful about a piece that demonstrates that we are merely chemical compounds, and yet also shows us how to discover equilibrium." The Guardian (4 stars)

Date: Wed 5 May 2010 - Thu 6 May 2010
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