Showing @ Dance Base Edinburgh Sun 19 Sep 8pm
Magnetic North Theatre Company are sending their 2009 production of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden back into the Scottish stratosphere in a whistle stop tour of the country. Although it is stopping briefly in Edinburgh it is set to make a lasting impression as Cameron Mowat takes the lead role. This one-man adaptation explores themes that are at their most palpable on stage such as our relationship with the environment around us and solitude in its rawest form.
Critically acclaimed the first time around, it adapts Thoreau’s own novel, which itself is a personal account of his experience of simple living. At twenty seven years old, he walked into the woods of Massachusetts where he remained for over two years. Despite the original text being written 155 years ago the universality of its agenda should see a primal relevance we can all relate to. Thoreau was a Philosophy lecturer at the times of these experiences, therefore it is sure to reflect his transcendentalist beliefs and bring to the fore ideas which suggest our world should reflect the power of intuition and spiritualism rather than the physical we are so caught up in.
Nicolas Bone’s direction of Walden has been described as both stylish and articulate, so if you fancy an empowering tale of independent self reliance then the Walden tour will be starting Dance Base, Edinburgh on the 18th September and continue throughout the autumn all around Scotland.
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