Roadmetal, Sweetbread
Station House Opera’s remarkable and award-winning production Roadmetal, Sweetbread has toured all over the world, each time especially recreated for the particular performance space. Occupying an alternative world which bears an uncanny resemblance to reality, a man and a woman compete for survival with their own life-size video images. Projected life-size onto a wall, the performers’ video personas vie with their live counterparts for attention and authenticity, regarding each other with conflicting emotions. Hidden motives, repressed impulses, covert violence and secret passions all become visible in this strange space which is part real, part intangible, part past and part present.
Written and directed by Susannah Hart and Julian Maynard Smith.
Performed by Susannah Hart, Julian Maynard Smith, Matthew Bowyer, Florian Feigl and Florence Peake
“A fantastically clever, deep and thought-provoking piece of theatre about loneliness, intimacy, and the powerful fantasies that possess us when we have too little of either... a little classic of end of century performance art.”
Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman
"Brilliant... viciously modern"
The Independent
“Strikingly dynamic, confusing, funny and alarming... it’s unlike any other performance art I’ve seen.”
David Batchelor, Frieze
"A blistering good piece of work."
The Guardian
"Roadmetal is a brilliant, unnerving, alternative reality, altogether too close for comfort.”
Serena Davies, The Daily Telegraph
“Station House Opera can’t be described, it must be experienced.”
Die Welt
“this is performance at its most playful, sinister and eerily surreal.”
Sarah Kent, Time Out
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An ArtsAdmin production 1999-2014
Theatre de la Cite Internationale, Paris; MCNN Nevers; Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Hellerau, Dresden; National Theatre of Gjakovë, Kosovo; Azerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedy, Baku; Arts Theatre, Nottingham; Sirenos Festival, Vilnius; Mlady Levi Festival, Ljubljana; Fringe 2, Thessaloniki; Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Amiens; Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh; Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; North Theatre, Beijing; Kiasma, Helsinki; KIT, Copenhagen; Scene Nationale de Senart, Combs La Ville; Swarm,Birmingham; Chiang Kai-Chek Cultural Center, Taipei; Forum Frieis Theater, Dusseldorf; Sociedade de Cultura Inglesa, Sao Paolo; Beirut Theatre, Beirut; International Arts Festival, Hong Kong; Sitges International Festival; City Hall, Yamaguchi; Le Manege, Reims; Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre; Warwick Arts Centre; Theatre National de Bretagne, Rennes; La Bâtie festival, Geneva; Kunstfest 2000, Weimar; Théâtre National de Bourgogne, Dijon; Hoxton Hall, London; Alternative Theatre Festival, Madrid; Trafo Theatre, Budapest; Spiel Art Festival, Munich; Theatre Arsenic, Lausanne; Haywood Gallery, London; Art-Rock Festival, St. Brieuc; Tramway, Glasgow; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff; ICA, London
