No Obvious Trauma

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Trains shriek through the night as the memory of a love affair floats through the walls of an isolated institution. A mysterious patient questions her identity and doctors track the fragile line between madness and desire.

In an isolated psychiatric institution, Dr. Weaver is haunted by the memory of a lost love affair. It is 1932, and a new patient arrives with little more than a name tag and a tattered ribbon. Unable to communicate anything of her past, she is assigned to Weaver's colleague Dr. Crawley. But as memories return, identity is mistaken, emotions are kindled and treatment undermined.

Although dealing with serious subject matter, drawing on Freud's work on hysteria and Charcot's catalogue of hysteric imagery, No Obvious Trauma is a gripping and highly entertaining story told with a vibrant combination of visual storytelling, energetic choreography, atmospheric shadows, character and ensemble acting, object animation and puppetry.

"Breathtakingly beautiful... every single second a visual feast" - Three Weeks Brighton

"dazzling physical theatre... extraordinarily imaginative" - The Scotsman

"this is a fantastic production, which manages to be entertaining, provocative and haunting" - British Theatre Guide

No Obvious Trauma appeared at the Pleasance in the Edinburgh Fringe 2006, where it was nominated for a Total Theatre Award.

Created, devised and produced by Unpacked
Performed by Darren East, Zoë Hunter and Gilbert Taylor.
Directed by Clare Dunn
Lighting Design by Henry Dawn

Website: http://www.unpacked.org/

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