DeTour to the theatre

In DeTour to the theatre we became interested in the different layers of audience participation, to do a work which includes field and organizational work, alongside the chance to touch on themes like: line making (in drawing, writing, stitching and walking), traces, travelling, storytelling, reality and fiction, foreignness, strangeness, loneliness and familiarity.

The performance involves 12 guests, who move on their own, through different ‘stations’ in and around Palma, and 12 guides, who provide encounters along the way. Each journey lasts more or less four hours and ends in the theatre, where all participants take part in a stage play.

Throughout the journey the participants carry their own travel books, which provide guidance as well as space for interaction with them. You can download them under: http://ceciliamolano.com/detour/

While the guests travel, a woman had been stitching throughout the duration of the journeys, in the theatre. She was stitching black lines on a white cloth. Cross-stitch as a synonym for storytelling (with it’s looping back) but also with its world-denying attitude - in it’s solitude and time. A woman sitting in the theatre, unable to leave, while you move around places and meetings, may attempt a try for co-presence of the variety of journeys we do.