Prepare to be transported to a world where fantasy and reality intertwine.
ROOST tells the tale of Bòbò, a misfit living in an abandoned railway station. She makes cloth out of rain. The story weaves together themes of genius, belonging, and the transformative power of curiosity.
The railway station is where her family has lived for over a century. She feels half-hearted about carrying on with their cloth tradition. It all seems so tenuous and not very useful. She wonders if anyone cares about fragile beautiful things anymore.
Over the course of the show, she meets curious characters and addresses some of life's big and small questions.
ROOST is about making tiny precious things, a swamp where time and logic are highly unstable; how to do something useful with your life (according to grandpa); meeting new friends; baked goods; outer space and astronomical minds.
Filled with funky songs and musical storytelling, Roost blends the fantastical world of Bòbò, with reimagined Oxford locations. These include Gloucester Green Market; the abandoned Cowley Morris railway station and the History of Science Museum (featuring one of its famous objects.) The story also weaves in an extraordinary NASA space project.
ROOST is absurd; funny; philosophical; wondrous and inspiring. It is filled with funky songs and musical storytelling narrative.
Props; masks; a vintage Rhodes electric piano and much more, bring this world to life.
There's even one answer to the question: ‘as we go looking up with longing at stars do they look back down and long for us too?’
Karen is a musician, writer and performer who has played everything from blues, jazz, rock and improvisation to avant garde and more. Just like her character, Bòbò, she’s discovered that following the threads of curiosity leads to all kinds of unexpected wonderful discoveries.
It was conceived and written by Karen.
Fatherly thoughts about Tiny Precious Things.
Bòbò's dad used to say :
‘Such tiny hands.
What kind of work is the work of these hands?
Why, the work of these hands, makes or breaks the world.’
He said ‘Never doubt the value of tiny things.
To make such fragile, precious and beautiful things,
Why, it fills the world with the possibility of beauty.’
Running Time: 80 minutes
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