Dream’s Lover

For them, the performers: puppet (Dream) and human (Lover), this is a story of ——————. (They let you manipulate only here).

Dream’s Lover is a surrealist puppetry and mask work spectacle devised through visual dramaturgy, using Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” as a stimulus. Implementing the medium of le théâtre noir, the piece explores shifting identities through dream-like sequences of the puppet and the human performer animating, interacting with, and manipulating each other.

Duration: 45 mins.

Suitable for 14+

Content Notes: Contains adult themes including violence

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Creative Team:

Created and Performed by Deniz Nejat İzar and the puppet Dream

Dramaturgy and Outside View Artūras Ustinovas, Deniz Nejat İzar, Kristina Švenčionytė and Maddie Hurley

Creation and Construction of the Puppet and Mask: Deniz Nejat İzar and Nurşen İzar

Special Thanks to Aly Carter, Cariad Astles (Personal Academic Tutor), Chloé Pegeot, Dickie Beau (Mentor), Elvan Eker and the Metamorphosis Studio Stage, Liam Jarvis (SIP Supervisor), Marzia Gambardella and Pierrik Malebranche and Mots de tête compagnie, and the MFA Cohort

Deniz Nejat İzar is an artist currently finishing their MFA in Advanced Theatre Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. As a performer, they specialize in puppetry and object theatre, mask work and material performance. Accordingly, they are profoundly interested in the fields of surrealism, the grotesque, phantasmagoric, carnal and uncanny, and the ritual(istic). Most recently, they undertook extended intensive training with Mots de tête Compagnie in Paris, inspired by the pedagogy of Mary Underwood and Philippe Genty.