Blind
By Black Hole Theatre and DudaPaiva Company
Concept/Script – Nancy Black and Duda Paiva
Director – Nancy Black
Lighting Design – Mark Verhoef
Sound Design and Composer – Wilco Alkema
Performer - Duda Paiva
Theatre Works
8 – 19 March 2016
From go to whoa this wonderful ‘grownups’
puppet show is a rich rewarding delight. Funny and even ‘laugh out loud’ to start with,
Blind is a marvelous and often
tantalizingly surprising journey. Master
puppeteer and artist Duda Paiva in communion with, through breathing life and
voice into, his exquisite delicate puppets - delights his audience.
Paiva is a charismatic, consummate, relaxed
and spontaneous performer who engages with disarming sincerity.
The work created in collaboration with
Director Nancy Black is predicated on experiences of childhood illness and
blindness from which Paiva recovered.
As a trained dancer Paiva moves with
wonderful contorted and controlled extensions.
Sound (Wilco Alkema) is usually subtle and
underpins with a pervading sense of mystery and Lighting (Mark Verhoef) serves
the piece beautifully.
Like the murky underbelly of a very old
fairytale Blind seems to to be a
tricky, to the death, tussle between good and evil that rewards partly through
catharsis and partly through wonder at its uniqueness. It is a work about healing on a deep
shamanistic level that allows one to tap into the inner child’s sense of curiosity
and, leaves one feeling elevated and joyful.
Suzanne Sandow
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