The Crick Crack Club
T01406277916
Archive :: production:T01406277916, performance:S1825583448, venue:V1035
From the Odd/The Cradle of Life
From the Odd, is Tim Ralphs’ spectacular re-imagining of some of the most familiar material in myth, folktale and nursery rhyme - treated with reverence, love, sewing scissors and a welding iron. The resultant panoply of resonant images includes, Orpheus’ lyre, urban landscapes, the devil playing scrabble, stars, sheds, and jocular cannibals. Let Tim take you to the edge, and back... + There are plans to build a new radio telescope nicknamed ‘ the cradle of life’, to listen for echoes from the Big Bang. Binding together Mesopotamian creation myth, a Tibetan story of a wrath-ridden mother and the birth of a magician - Vergine Gulbenkian performs
The Cradle of Life- picking through themes of sound, sacrifice and motherhood.
