WE ARE STARRY LITTLE STORIES
To understand our performance group you need to understand Dubai and us. You need to believe in simplicity. You need to believe in the future and trust that good stories can rivet and transport as much with high production values as without. Our theatre work is in essence, a quest to recapture that natural wonder of childhood, where shadows were never shadows but strange, horned creatures, and simple sticks were capable of destroying worlds.
We are looking for the tangible elements of the world with particular attention to the everyday actions. This realism is placed in a strange environment in which reality is questioned, looking for the fiction, the fears and the absurdism in reality. What remains is the reality of the theatre itself.
OUR WORLD IS STORY
We speak it in many languages - through words, movement, and silence. Ours is a channelled world; we claim no ownership of these pretty, surreal stories. They live through us, and our goal is to thread them all a new each time. Our past is like an old damaged projection created by telling the story of the story. Our window is a view on the most futuristic, ambitions city of the world; Dubai. A city dark faces of hope and fears. We look at it every day a see people come and people go. Building friendships here is a waste of time.
WE GRAB PEOPLE AROUND US
They create with us, but we know they will leave us. Like stories have a beginning and a happily ever after. We take them and act out our primal fears. We shout what we can remember; our darkest dreams and happy histories. There is no real ending. Just a place and time where we stop the story.
OUR HOME IS THE MIDDLE EAST
From the desert in the heat. After sunset, we tell you stories under the stars like our Arab ancestors. As little people under the old universe. New stories from today. Stories alone in the dark. Our performance does not have the ambition of an outcome with finding a fact.
Disorientation is an important tool. Through missions, questions and challenges we move.
We get lost, must return and disoriented.
WE LOOKING FOR A TEMPORARY POSSIBLE IDENTITY
Dubai is a fledgling cosmopolitan city, a city that 30 years ago started in an endless desert.
A harmony between Islam and Western culture, and especially with a hopeful and optimistic view of a futuristic future. This optimism inspires us. Just like so many other things in Dubai, artistic projects are pioneer work, but at the same time offer enormous possibilities.
Our world is Story. We speak it in many languages - through words, movement, and silence.
Ours is a channelled world; we claim no ownership of these pretty, surreal dreams.
They live through us, and our goal is to thread them all a new each time. We believe in simplicity, and trust that good stories can rivet and transport as much with high production values as without.
Starry Little Stories are, in essence, a quest to recapture that natural wonder of childhood, where shadows were never shadows but strange, horned creatures, and simple sticks were capable of destroying worlds.
