Wrecked was a collaboration with writer and director, John East.
‘You understood me and I loved you. Now everything escapes me. Our earthly hopes and desires are only vain fancies, our successes mirages that we try to grasp. If there is one thing certain in this world, it is our pains. Suffering is real, pleasure only imaginary.’ Théodore Géricault, 1817
Set against the political instability of Nineteenth Century Paris, Wrecked tells the tumultuous true story of the artist Théodore Géricault. His paintings and surviving historical documents create the visual and dramatic world in which a doomed love affair takes him from brink of madness to creation of his greatest painting, The Raft of the Medusa.
Verbal Declarations of love flow into passages of dance-theatre and as the artist chases fame and recognition, he edges closer to drowning aboard his own shipwreck.
Photo: Jemima Yong
Wrecked was commissioned by LCCT and supported by the egg, Theatre Royal Bath. The piece premiered at Leeds Emerge Festival before touring to Theatre Royal Bath and Wilton's Music Hall, London.
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