Two figures, two lives, multiple time spaces: TOLD BY THE WIND is a new performance of movement and text that ‘dances’ an inner landscape. Inspired by East Asian and ‘post-dramatic’ aesthetics, stories are evoked and told by embodied silences, splintered interactions, and slowed down motion.

Transformative and multi-layered, TOLD is informed by Japanese Theatre of Quietude and String Theory [Quantum physics]. Intimate and meditative, it is a requiem for the unseen; a poignant duet for two figures who never physically meet.


First Production
Told by the Wind premiered at Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Cardiff,
29th January 2010.

Created by Kaite O'Reilly, Jo Shapland and Phillip Zarrilli
Artistic Consultants Mari Boyd (Tokyo) and Peader Kirk (London)
Lighting designer Ace McCarron
Cast Jo Shapland, Phillip Zarrilli