MOONFOOL

This is devised performance which celebrates the moon and all things lunar. It explores the human cycle of love, longing and loss through ideas connected with the moon - using myths, folk-tales and poems; rituals and practices; astronomical and scientific phenomena; and several other narratives that mankind has created over the ages to grasp the moon. Sensing the deep connection between menstrual cycles and lunar cycles, the ancients believed that it was the 'magical moon blood' which was used to create life, and that we are all, therefore, 'made of the moon'. In Zen Buddhist philosophy, the 'Buddha aspect' of the human being is represented by the moon - perhaps we look up to the night sky to fulfill this longing to return to 'what we are made of'. Tracing a voyage through eclipses and tides, werewolves and vampirism, lunacy and hypnosis, moon rituals and lunar festivals, Moonfool explores the impossible love story between the human being and the moon.