The City Stops at Islington – With Iris
Glass-Eye Theatre bring their exciting production of The City and Iris to The Pleasance Theatre from Thursday 6 – Saturday 8 March at 8.00pm. The City and Iris is a physical, visual and comic feast and will be the debut for the company at the venue. The action centres around Iris (played by Julia Correa) while ‘The City’ is performed by a talented chorus of five actors. Without a set, the ensemble create Iris’s world themselves. Ingeniously contorting their bodies and a length of red rope, they become the creaky wardrobe in Iris’s bedroom, the books in the library and the lifelike trees on her walk to work. The ensemble also create all sound effects, from Iris’s radio alarm clock to her rattling commuter train, as well as a ‘soundtrack’ in the form of a recurring and haunting four part harmony. Iris’s every day is a haze of grey, and today … Read more
