PAPER SWANS

PRESENTED BY VYTE GARRIGA AND FLABBERGAST THEATRE

In a closed park at night, a security guard on his patrol finds a young woman in a ballet dress sitting on the bench making paper swans. As he tries to find out what she is doing and why, he locks them in a continuous never-ending loop of having to encounter each other again and again.

However, each time they meet, there is a slight change in the situation from the one before. This work draws on absurdist theatre, visual symbolism and the playwright’s personal experience, as a woman from a post-Soviet country (Lithuania) coming to the UK.

20 JUL
7PM
£9 STANDARD
£7 CONCESSION

PAPER SWANS

PRESENTED BY VYTE GARRIGA AND FLABBERGAST THEATRE
Why does everything have to have a reason? Because everything has.

In a closed park at night, a security guard on his patrol finds a young woman in a ballet dress sitting on the bench making paper swans. As he tries to find out what she is doing and why, he locks them in a continuous never-ending loop of having to encounter each other again and again.

However, each time they meet, there is a slight change in the situation from the one before. This work draws on absurdist theatre, visual symbolism and the playwright’s personal experience, as a woman from a post-Soviet country (Lithuania) coming to the UK.

20 JUL
7PM
£9 STANDARD
£7 CONCESSION

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Content Warnings

Use of fake blood, references to violence, themes of oppression and mental health

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Age Recommendation

10+

Duration

60m

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