Requiem
A contemporary requiem for life on this planet.
Kaleider’s Requiem is a theatre performance combining large scale kinetic installation and an original musical score.
Devised and designed by the team that created Arch (2024), Requiem asks: what rituals do we need to face the moment we are living? And when we come together, what will we choose to build?
In a world strange yet familiar, at an undefinable time, a group of people are constructing something. With a song of voice and breath, and the labour of human bodies, a jumble of metal becomes a giant ribcage, rising from the ground.
Suddenly, it comes to extraordinary, uncanny life. A metaphor for our world: organic and mechanical, fragile and strong, dead yet breathing. Requiem invites us to occupy a tension between the things we create and control, and their mortal outcomes.
Kaleider’s Requiem is conceived and directed by Seth Honnor with music by Verity Standen.
Premiering in 2026 & Available for Touring
Would you like to bring Requiem to your festival, venue, context, or site? Please write to Executive Producer Katie Keeler at katie@kaleider.com for more information.
Access
Learn more about what happens in Requiem and what to expect in the following documents:
Audio Description in mp3 (coming soon)
Credits
Conceived & Directed by Seth Honnor
Original Musical Score by Verity Standen
Executive Producer: Katie Keeler
Research & Development: Irene Urrutia
Lighting Designer: Nao Nagai
Movement Consultant: Laila Diallo
Dramaturg: Tanuja Amarasuriya
Sound Consultant R&D: Duncan Speakman
Installation Design & Engineering: Seth Honnor, Jacob Honnor, Jay Kerry, Irene Urrutia
Production Manager: Jay Kerry
Company Manager: Jocelyn S. Mills
Performers: Seth Honnor, Jay Kerry, Nao Nagai, Irene Urrutia
Kaleider’s Requiem is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Requiem R&D was supported by: Oerol Festival in Terschelling, the Netherlands; Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof, Belgium; Tokyo University of Science and Prof. Jin Akiyama’s Mathematical Experience Plaza, Tokyo, funded by Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
Citizen Commissioners
Citizen Commissioners are individual donors who support us to make and bring artwork into the world. And you could be one of them. Our fundraising campaign for Kaleider’s Requiem is about to open.
