Description

Stephen Mottram's The Seed Carriers has become a classic work of animation theatre, winning international theatre awards around the world.

Imagine a race of small creatures that look remarkably like humans, but are really more like insects or plants. They are The Seed Carriers.

Valuable and vulnerable, they are farmed for the seeds carried within them. They must develop their cunning to survive the ruthless social system in which they live.

In conspiracy with a score by Glyn Perrin, these puppets draw their audience into a beautiful world which becomes horrific and then haunting, as our understanding of it starts to dawn.

Details

Categories
Duration
50 minutes
Premiere
Stephen Mottram and Glyn Perrin, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 1995
Scoring
1 Tape, 1 Electro-Acoustic
Composition date
1995

Performances

5 November 2015

Main House, Pleasance Theatre, London

Stephen Mottram's Animata

4 November 2015

Main House, Pleasance Theatre, London

Stephen Mottram's Animata

18 October 2015

Théâtre des Marionnettes de Genève

Stephen Mottram's Animata

17 October 2015

Théâtre des Marionnettes de Genève

Stephen Mottram's Animata

16 October 2015

Théâtre des Marionnettes de Genève

Stephen Mottram's Animata

15 October 2015

Théâtre des Marionnettes de Genève

Stephen Mottram's Animata

14 October 2015

Théâtre des Marionnettes de Genève

Stephen Mottram's Animata

13 October 2015

Théâtre des Marionnettes de Genève

Stephen Mottram's Animata

11 October 2015

Théâtre des Marionnettes de Genève

Stephen Mottram's Animata

10 October 2015

Théâtre des Marionnettes de Genève

Stephen Mottram​'s Animata

9 October 2015

Théâtre des Marionnettes de Genève

Stephen Mottram's Animata

5 May 2005

Norwich Puppet Theatre

Stephen Mottram's Animata

18 December 1995

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Stephen Mottram's Animata