Crave (2006)

Live digital projections in a theater play.
Software: Moldeo
Theater El Lavapiés. Buenos Aires, May 20 – December 9, 2006.
Theater NoAvestruz. Buenos Aires. 2007 - 2008
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Crave is the fourth play by British playwright Sarah Kane. In it, four characters, named A, B, C and M, create an uninterrupted, almost musical, flow of voices. The fragmented, and at times intertwined, dialogue about obsession, love and death exists not in a physical plane, but rather in the emotional space that it creates inside each member of the audience.

Sarah Kane didn't leave any directions about the "mise en scène". This fact, combined with the entirely subjective nature of the play, made it ideal to experiment with the resource of live digital projection. We chose a minimalistic staging which involves digital images projected onto the walls of the stage. These images are generated live by a Moldeo operator interpreting a predetermined "visual score". The images are painterly renderings reminiscent of coastal landscapes. During the play, these images smoothly change one into the other, following the musical rhythm of the dialogue, yet avoiding to directly echo its meaning. The continuity and softness of the images are broken at times by the use of more geometrical figures, like lines and curves, that are projected on the wall.

Awards: The work of digital projection obtained a distinction in the category Stage Scene/Spatial Design from the 2006 edition of the “Teatro del Mundo” awards from the Rojas Cultural Center.
The play was selected for the 2007 Porto Alegre on Stage Festival (Brazil) and also for the 2007 International Theater Festival of Buenos Aires.