STICKMAN

ABOUT THE PLAY

A story crafted by a man, a stick and a television. It may seem like a simple and quiet story, in reality it's a roller coaster of surprises. A work that is both a bizarre comedy and a brilliant intellectual play.

“Balance is an act of movement. It is an exchange between different forces. Balance always takes place unnoticed. Only in the moment it is lost do we realize its importance. It physically affects our human existence and is also a metaphor for different directions of movement. Equality, inequality. Too much, too little. To live, to die. The balance of the stick. What I do is anti-puppet theatre." Darragh McLoughlin

Nonverbal (CZ/ENG subtitles)

 Darragh McLoughlin

• 50 min.
• Age category:10+
• Directed by:Darragh McLoughlin
• Premiere:31. 10. 2021
• Starring:Darragh McLoughlin, Joseph Summers

About the theatre:

Director/performer Darragh McLoughlin started his career as a juggler. He has no puppetry background but ever since he was “discovered” by the puppetry world a few years ago, he has become a familiar name in Europe.

Squarehead Productions was founded by Darragh McLoughlin and Elena Kreusch in 2012 as a platform promoting artistic research and performance and as a space for collaboration with other creative disciplines. Darragh is a conceptual artist with roots in contemporary circus. His physical practice focuses on various movement techniques and exploration of object balancing. The body remains a central subject/object in all his projects. He spends a great deal of his time learning very specific non-functional skills that most other people wouldn't think of and/or bother to employ. His work takes many different forms and can be seen as live performances, performance lectures, video installations and artworks. His creative methodology places a strong focus on dramaturgy and the role of the audience in the context of the performance.