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.

Access

We will provide the following documents, containing information on what happens in Requiem, what Requiem is about, and what to expect.

Easy Read in pdf

Easy Read in Word

Audio Description in mp3

Audio Description in Word

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 currently open. 

Add yourself or a loved one to Requiem’s credits as a Citizen Commissioner, starting at just £25.

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