Corraine’s The Severed Wing at The Lowry Theatre captivates with its bold, sound-driven exploration of life and confinement.
Corrine created The Severed Wing as a way of communicating some of her struggles as a disabled artist. The whole performance is live-streamed to an audience from Corrine’s bedroom, creating a unique atmosphere unlike any live performance I have ever seen.
The whole performance really details the struggles of being bed-bound due to health and the restraints it causes in her life.
Divided into four acts, the performance features different imagery throughout each, evoking a different meaning to the spectator. Varying from lines of string over Corrine’s face to show her imprisonment to wings being underneath her face, reflecting her want to fly away.
Corraine, an artist of remarkable technical skill, is framed by a mane of lace throughout the show. The extent of her entrapment in a bed, which doubles as her studio, is emphasised as a variety of items enter the frame to brush, jab, and circle the static protagonist.
It was remarkable how expertly Corraine and The Lowry Theatre brought her artistic vision to life for the audience.
The Severed Wing is a unique performance, especially in the fact that it has no dialogue, instead using a complex soundscape to create meaning, forcing the audience to pay attention to every sound and frame.
Whilst an interesting and thoughtful performance, in my opinion, some of the imagery was lacking deep meaning and therefore, whilst still an important message and very well crafted, it struggled to provoke thought at times beyond what was clearly being displayed.
★★★☆☆
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