Guillaume Pigé & Theatre Re
The Nature of Forgetting

Saturdays, March 23 & March 30, 2019
2 & 7pm

Sundays, March 24 & March 31, 2019
12 & 5pm

The New Victory Theater

Physical Theater • Ages 9 & up • 75 min • In English

Flying downhill on a bicycle. Whispering with a sweetheart. Wedding toasts and first dances. When the past begins to dissolve for Tom, a father experiencing early onset dementia, happy childhood moments collide with momentous adult milestones in tangled threads of memory.

Through intricate choreography and a cinematic live musical score, London-based Theatre Re creates a compellingly powerful narrative of heartwarming humanity that moves you to places where words cannot.

At the intersection of art and science, Theatre Re collaborated with British neuroscientist Kate Jeffery to examine the fragility of life in a captivating style embracing mime, theater, and live music.

Cast
Guillaume Pigé (Director/Tom)
Chris Jones (Percussionist/Schoolboy)
Eygló Belafonte (Emma/Mrs Denis)
Alex Judd (Composer/Multi-instrumentalist/Teacher)
Louise Wilcox (Isabella/Sophie)
Matthew Austin (Mike)

Creative Team
Costume & Props: Malik Ibheis
Lighting Design: Katherine Graham
Script & songwriting: A.C. Smith

$17-42

The New Victory Theater
209 West 42nd Street,
New York, NY 10036

About the Artist

Guillaume Pigé is an actor, director, mime and magician. He formed Theatre Re in 2009. Guillaume trained at the Conservatory of Villeurbanne in France and graduated from the International School of Corporeal Mime in London under the direction of Corinne Soum and Steven Wasson. He also studied with Thomas Leabhart and Daniel Stein. Pigé holds an MA in Text and Performance Studies from King’s College London and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA). Apart from directing and performing in all Theatre Re’s productions to date, Pigé worked as a Movement Director with Andrew Visnevski, Sue Dunderdale, and Bill Gaskill. He is an Associate Teacher at RADA, and Head of Movement at Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company. He is regularly invited to give workshops in the United Kingdom and internationally. He was recently commissioned by The National Theatre (UK) to produce a new translation of Tartuffe by Molière. Guillaume is an @HOME Artist at The Point, Eastleigh.

Presented by The New Victory Theater with the support of TILT Kids Festival.
Photo © Danilo Moroni