How We Make Love: When Poetry and Theatre Meet
‘How We Make Love: When Poetry and Theatre Meet’, performed at Pangaea on Wednesday 9th of March 2016, brought together two ways of communicating, two ways of making sense of the world: poetry and theatre.
Commonly conceived as private, poetry is a personal gateway to innerness, while theatre is the staged, public sphere of externality.
In ‘How We Make Love: When Poetry and Theatre Meet’ poetry and theatre come together in synthesis = poetry theatrerised, theatre poeticised!
Staged as an interaction between 15 poems, half written by members of Leuven Writers’ Collective and the other by well-known poets, such as Mary Oliver, Stevie Smith, Lord Byron and WH Auden, the poems were chosen to explore the many aspects of love, such as playfulness, comfort and trust, loss, intimacy, self-love, union, carnal passion, death desire, betrayal, guilt, forgiveness and return.
An exhibition accompanied the performance to support the experience and to increase engagement of such a novel and complex production, where text became spoken word and movement became gesture. A production where the script was mythologised, objects stood for metaphor and colour symbolised.
Directed by: Kceniya Holmes
Assisted by: AD Capili
Interview with Kceniya.
Jagruti interviews Kceniya about the creative process behind 'How We Make Love: When Poetry and Theatre Meet'.