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“Reject your soul”
adaptation of the fairy tale by Oscar Wilde
“The Fisherman and His Soul”
45 min. performance of miniature silicone puppets and live music
The concept
Experiments with the human body become an integral part of modern life. Organ transplantation, plastic or sex change surgey are not surprising any more. It‘s time to explore human soul: to grope it, to separate it from the body, to specify it‘s weight nowadays.
After the period of performances dealing with social themes, Psilicone theatre turns back to it‘s essence: psyche (gr. soul) + silicone = psilicone. This time the performance of miniature silicone puppets, live video projection and music links together to transcend reality and create the new one. Though, according to Oscar Wilde, „the soul is a terrible reality” (The Picture of Dorian Gray).
The performance is based on O. Wilde’s fairy tale ‘The Fisherman and His Soul”, which arguably is the most difficult of writer’s fairy tales because of its confusing mystical conception of body and soul.
A young fisherman falls for a mermaid, but in order to join her in the depths of the sea he has to lose his immortal soul. He sets off to learn the secret ritual he must perform to free his soul from his body. Finally he sends the soul away and joins his mermaid under the sea. But every year soul comes back, tempts fisherman wishing to move into his heart.
Fascinating and moving love story turns to the struggle between Soul and Heart for control over the Fisherman’s body. “Reject Your Soul” is a convincing visualization of the psychic landscape where beauty and brutality, pleasure and death, exist alongside one another. There are two musical versions of „Reject Your Soul“.
In June 2012 premiered at Vilnius Culture Night Festival „Let There Be Night“
with contemporary jazz duet from Moscow “Jazzator”- Marina Sobyanina (vocal, piano) and Sergej Balashov (percussion).
With „Jazzator“ internationally premiered at Street Art Festival “Spoffin”, Amersfoort, Netherlands.During residency in Zagreb, Croatia, “Psilicone theatre” collaborated with “Choco Jazz”: two melodius feminine vocals - Nina Jukic, Lea Dido - and percussion - Alexander Forstner.
After the show in “Ganz New Festival” (Zagreb) with this new cast performance came back to Vilnius International Theatre Festival “Sirens”.