KIN
This event was held in the past and is no longer available for booking.
KIN
presented by DONNA RUTHERFORD
KIN explores the fear, sorrow, anger, guilt and frustration but also the love, trust and laughter to be found as middle-aged children negotiate the changes in their relationship with their parent. In moving close-ups, performers reveal to camera concerns of their own ageing while dealing with their parents’ increasingly glacial pace of life.
Performers Richard Gregory (Quarantine), Tim Ingram (Reckless Sleepers), Cathy Naden and Claire Marshall (Forced Entertainment) and actor Alison Peebles are linked during a live performance by Donna Rutherford
As time speeds up, the future and its inevitable deteriorations get closer. Just as you become slower at everything you do, take longer to do the simplest things, you find yourself hurtling downhill with no brakes.
“This solo performance is a powerful meditation on the shifting dynamics that seep into the relationship between middle-aged children and elderly parents. Rutherford has an instinct for delving into the troubled heartland of everyday life. Here, she succeeds in confronting our fears while reminding us to celebrate shared humanity.” ***** The Herald, February 2011
“A show that relates closely to the raw stuff of real life... Punctuated by Rutherford’s own live commentary the show is as gentle and caring an exploration of a difficult subject as can be imagined.**** The Scotsman, November 2011
“Rutherford is a performer with a track record and experience that ensures her exploration has profound and significant depth... As a piece of work, it is worth taking the time to note that KIN is quite beautifully and meticulously realised, technically and in its timing to the last grain of sand in an hour glass. And, as we learn, those timepieces are, like memory, more fickle than we believe.” **** The Herald, November 2011
Video footage for KIN can be viewed here:
