A girl meets a half-man-half-kangaroo in her dreams, and falls in love. Obsessed by his reality, and the idea of becoming a part of it, she takes desperate measures to spend more time with him. This obsession leads her into the darkest depths of the human psyche.
Presented by Insite Arts and Vitalstatisix
A girl meets a half-man-half-kangaroo in her dreams, and falls in love. Obsessed by his reality, and the idea of becoming a part of it, she takes desperate measures to spend more time with him. This obsession leads her into the darkest depths of the human psyche.
After sell-out shows in Melbourne, Slovenia and The Netherlands, South Australian artist Fleur Elise Noble returns to her home-town with her exquisitely textural visual performance that beautifully weaves puppetry, projection, drawing and dance. Like a low-tech hologram or a high-tech paper pop-up book, ROOMAN transports us inside worlds of animated universes as they unfold upon a giant, three-dimensional paper set.
Heart-warming and heart-breaking, ROOMAN is a visual-musical extravaganza about following your dreams, waking up, and living.
Port Adelaide locals, you will recognise your hometown in this fable.
“Noble and her team bear comparison to the British company 1927, crafting – from a bespoke, noir-like surrealism – a dark, whimsical style of visual theatre that dominates the imagination. Rooman is a must for anyone interested in the possibilities of cinema in theatrical space, and will fire the imagination of older children and adults alike.” The Sydney Morning Herald
Image: Bryony Jackson
About the Artist
Fleur Elise Noble is a maker of all things visual. She works with the mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture, animation, film, puppetry, projection and performance. She studied on full scholarships at art schools in Adelaide (ACSA) and New York (NYSS). Since graduating in 2006, she has worked with many arts, theatre and multimedia professionals around the world and has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards for her work. Fleur’s most renowned work to date is her visual performance ‘2-Dimensional Life of Her’, which has been invited to perform at over 40 venues and festivals around the world.
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