There’s so much to sea and do

TASMANIA’S Terrapin Puppet Theatre, in collaboration with Denmark’s Teatret Gruppe 38 and Trickster-P from Switzerland, will stage a large-scale outdoor installation focusing on humanity’s fatal relationship with the sea for Dark Mofo in Hobart from tomorrow.

Terrapin artistic director Sam Routledge has previously worked with Teatret Gruppe 38 and maintained the connection, which led to Terrapin being part of the original All This Coming and Going staged in Denmark in 2017.

In Hobart the combined

project will feature 14 shipping containers.

“The architecturally designed space includes some containers stacked two- or three-high, with collaborative installations and activities both between and inside the containers,” Routledge said.

“People have up to an hour to explore and discover, as well as experience the fantastic views from the site.”

He said the project imagined what the world could be like when the oceans had taken over.

“There is a strong feeling of absence, with spaces where there is both humanity and an absence of humanity, rather like a ruin overtaken and reclaimed by nature,” Routledge said.

“It’s not explicit, but a gentle meditation in which you are invited to draw your own conclusions.

“There is a sense of shipwrecks, lost cities, tsunamis and an ongoing engagement with the Titanic.

“It also engages with the ocean as a great transporter of people seeking a better place to be.”

Routledge said he was thrilled the international production would be seen by Tasmanian audiences.

“It’s fantastic that Dark Mofo is bringing this work home,” he said.

“Terrapin’s contribution includes projections, and an environment brought to life and animated. It shows how we engage with technology in a really accessible and simple way.”

The production is suitable for adults and for children over eight. It will be held at the Regatta Grounds hourly from 5-9pm from tomorrow until Sunday, and next week from June 19-23.

Tickets are $15, available from darkmofo.net.au

— PENNY THOW