THE MAKING OF PINOCCHIO
Cade & MacAskill (Glasgow)
Schedule
Within the setting of a live-action film shooting, the two artists, partners not only in their professional lives, reflect and accompany Ivor MacAskill’s gender-affirming surgery as well as their own romantic relationship. In the story of the lying wooden doll that wants to be a “real boy”, ideas about authenticity and variable truths articulate with playful humour – alongside the question about what it means to be regarded as “real”. The piece is a cheerful hybrid artwork uniting experiments with film and live transmission, thereby creating a diverse world situated between various realities and fantasies. This aims to particularly explore a queer space of experience and imagination capable of illustrating the world.
THE MAKING OF PINOCCHIO is intended as a subversive and complex work by and for trans persons, simultaneously opening up to a broader audience.
Biography
Cade & MacAskill are queer artists Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill. Their work encompasses contemporary theatre, live art, queer cabaret, film, children’s theatre, as well as site-specific and social activism practices. The duo does not only share a penchant for subversive humor, playful theatricality, and the joy in collective improvisation, but also their passionate activism for LGBTQIA+ rights and culture. Both live and work in Glasgow, Scotland.
Cast
Artistic Direction Rosana Cade | Ivor MacAskill Performance Rosana Cade | Ivor MacAskill | Jo Hellier | Ray Gammon Stage, Prop, and Costume Design Tim Spooner Sound Design Yas Clarke Camera Jo Hellier Lighting Design Jo Palmer Cinematography Kirstin McMahon | Jo Hellier Outside Eye Nic Green Movement Coach Eleanor Perry Subtitles Collective Text | Emilia Beatriz | Daniel Hughes with Rosana Cade, Yas Clarke, Ivor MacAskill and Jamie Rea Production Dr. Nora Laraki for Artsadmin Production Development Mary Osborn for Artsadmin Production Management Sorcha Stott-Strzala Assistant Stage Manager Ray Gammon
Info
It is not permitted to take photographs or film during the performance.
Throughout the festival period, we offer the digital version of THE MAKING OF PINOCCHIO here on our website in the DIGITAL section. This is not just a recording of the stage version, but a congenial play with split screens, cinematic perspectives, close-ups and cuts.
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Production & Realization
Commissioned by Fierce Festival, Kampnagel, Tramway & Viernulvier with support from Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Battersea Arts Centre, LIFT and Take Me Somewhere. Produced by Artsadmin. Funded by Creative Scotland, Arts Council England and Rudolf Augstein Stiftung with development support from The Work Room/Diane Torr Bursary, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, National Theatre of Scotland, Live Art Development Agency, Gessnerallee, Mousonturm, Forest Fringe, West Kowloon Cultural District & LGBT Health & Wellbeing Scotland
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