ES MAGAZINE: Louis Vuitton On Set of Punchdrunk and National Theatre's "The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable" by Photographer Jon Gorrigan

Ma: ES, August 2013

Louis Vuitton

St: Nicky Yates

Ph: Jon Gorrigan

DAZED DIGITAL: Punchdrunk, "Lila" from The Drowned Man

From Dazed Digital:

Our first theatre Visionaries to date are Punchdrunk. Since their formation in 2000, they have changed the face of live arts, offering deconstructed narratives and extreme atmospheres with their innovative concept of radical enviromental immersion, staging their experiences in train tunnels, decommissioned pharmaceutical headquarters and, of course, warehouses. Their latest production sees a central London sorting office transformed into a vast, 1960s movie studio complex for The Drowned Man , an orchestrally ambitious retelling of Woyzeck transposed into the darkest edges of Golden Age Hollywood. For the ending of the season, Punchdrunk have used their Visionary slot to add a further layer of mystery to their narrative with the telling of Lila's story. Click play and get dragged into their world.

 

 

MUST SEE/STAGE: The Drowned Man 'A Hollywood Fable' Presented by Punchdrunk and the National Theatre in London

 

The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable

Punchdrunk

Synopsys: 

The award-winning Punchdrunk stage their biggest and most ambitious production yet. The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable is an extraordinary theatrical adventure: a unique personal journey which unfolds across four levels of a vast central London location.

Amidst the fading glamour of 1960s Los Angeles, stands Temple Studios – a crumbling monument to the golden age of film, seducing wide-eyed dreamers with the promise of wealth and fame. Here, movie stars mingle with hungry young upstarts, while beyond the gates lies a forgotten hinterland where the many rejected by the studio system scratch out a living.

Inspired by Georg Büchner's fractured masterpiece Woyzeck, The Drowned Man explores the darkness of the Hollywood dream. Celluloid fantasy meets desperate reality, and certainty dissolves into a hallucinatory world.