THERE may be eavesdroppers among the twilight procession in Chester’s Roman Garden later this month.
The team behind one element of the Up the Wall event are planning to listen into people’s reactions to their promenade of projections.
“The point of doing this kind of stuff for us is about seeing what people make of it,” says Peter Petralia, artistic director of New York’s Proto-type Theater, which has created the Through the Wall part of show.
“We don’t like to prescribe what they should get from it – we’re really interested in listening to their conversation.
“We’re hoping it will make people think about the structure of these walls and what they are and what they mean, how they’ve been employed elsewhere in the world.
“But I’m fine if people just think it’s really beautiful.”
Chester’s status as a walled city is the starting point for the evening of performance, sound and light.
Visitors are invited to walk through the garden, experiencing its transformation, any time from 7-9pm on October 23 and 24.
For Through the Wall, they will be confronted by a series of double-sided projections on a 10-minute loop, showing people walking along the walls and experiencing similar locations around the world.
