REWIND
by Ephemeral Ensemble (Brazil, Colombia, Iceland & UK)
Thursday, June 5 at 7pm
Friday, June 6 at 9pm
Saturday June 7 at 3pm & 7pm
65 min / Ages 12+
Performances of REWIND
will be at Theater Wit
1229 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Contact: (773) 975-8150
See Theater Wit's Health and Safety Guidelines
AWARDS
One of The Guardian's top 10 best theatre shows of 2024
Summerhall's inaugural Rewind Award 2023
(The award was aptly named after our show REWIND)
Warwick Award for Public and Community Engagement 2023
LUSTRUM Award for unforgettable work at Edfringe 2023
One of Scotsman's pick of best theatre shows of Edinburgh
Fringe 2023
OFF FEST Nomination
LouReviews 10 Favorite theatre shows of 2024
REVIEWS
★★★★ "Scorching show... Ephemeral Ensemble use music, light, movement and puppetry to astonishing effect" The Guardian
★★★★ "Kaleidoscopically creative...explodes into extraordinary life" The Stage
★★★★ "Deeply moving" The Scotsman
★★★★★ "This how theatre should be" Broadway Baby
★★★★★ "Truly astonishing and inspiring from start to finish...leaves you wanting more" Voice Magazine
★★★★★ "Impactful, unmissable and memorable" North West End
★★★★★ "This powerful, emotional, lovingly crafted gem, is not one to miss" A Young(ish) Perspective
★★★★★ "A rare find with a touching and important message"
Theatre and Tonic
★★★★★ "Special and unforgettable" Lost in theatreland
★★★★★ "Everything is considered, everything is deliberate, everything is outstanding" All that Dazzles
★★★★★ "Extraordinarily powerful" Three Weeks
★★★★★ "Indispensable work of essential humanity " Theatre Weekly
★★★★★ "Fascinating and absorbing" Louise Penn
★★★★★ "The work lingers long after the performance"
West End Best Friend
Workshop Offering:
June 6 10am-1pm
REWIND invites you to witness the investigation of a crime secretly buried. In a whirlwind of powerful live music, energetic physical theatre and striking images, the show reveal an intimate backward journey into the life of Alicia, a young woman who dare to resist against authoritarianism.
REWIND is inspired by testimonies of refugees whose lives were affected by dictatorship in the 70's in Latin America and young adult migrants whose lives have been affect by human rights abuse in Latin America in 2019-2021. It also draws from the science of Forensic Anthropology, the first science in history to investigate human rights violation. Their methods of investigation were evolved in Latin America to find forced disappeared people during military dictatorship period. Through the analyses of injures on bones, the science led a revolution in how human rights are investigated.
ABOUT EPHEMERAL ENSEMBLE
Ephemeral ensemble is a multiword winning and critically acclaimed international physical theatre collective. We make work driven by a theme or a question, which inspires us to find fact-based stories that shine a light on current hidden social issues. Collaboration between the artistic team, the community and professionals in other fields is vital to our process. Our work is political, visually striking, highly dynamic, thought provoking and moving at heart. We combine the high physicality of the performers, original music and playful interaction with the stagecraft to create a narrative. Previous work: Ephemeral Ensemble have recently co-produced with RADA MA Theatre Lab ‘Farewell and Thanks for All The Sheep’, a theatre show about fashion, sustainability and colonialism. The show had a sold out run at GBS Theatre. We have also created work with theatre students from ‘Universidad del Valle’ in Cali- Colombia, based on the theme ‘ Youth Homelessness’. We toured our show ‘Offstage’ from 2017- 2019, including a mouth run at The Pleasance, as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018, and at Tristan Bates as part of the best shows of the Fringe 2018. The show was Lyn Gardner’s pick of the Fringe 2018 for The Independent. Ephemerals’ first work, CARSICK, culminated from the New Diorama's Emerging Theatre Company Program and awards from New Diorama and Ideas Tap in 2016. We are regularly leading devising and physical theatre workshops in the UK and internationally, places such as RADA, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, East15, Royal Holloway University, University of Warwick, Physical Fest, Icelandic Academy of the Arts (Iceland), Univalle University (Colombia), Festival La Rebellión de los Muñecos (Chile).