The Interpreter

The Interpreter

A new performance work of music, dance, moving image, song and costume created for the first time in the beautiful woodland setting at Thorington Theatre.

The Interpreter is an ambitious new interdisciplinary performance premiering at Thorington Theatre, Suffolk, on 30th and 31st August 2026.

Inspired by Italo Calvino’s The Castle of Crossed Destinies and Noriko Okaku’s animation The Interpreter, the performance explores the need to tell our stories. A group of travellers journey through a magical forest and gather in a forgotten castle, each having lost the ability to speak in words. Their host offers them a deck of tarot cards, and in turn each traveller uses the images to communicate their own story the cards offering as many meanings as there are viewers and listeners. Stories unfold through sung text, dance and music.

Creative team:

Hazel Gould, Director; Keir Vine, Composer; Noriko Okaku, Animation and tarot; Yoko Brown, costumes; Emily Richardson, moving image; Rob Gildon, The Narrator (baritone); Natalie Ayton, choreographer; Musicians: Catherine Ring (marimba), Charlotte Jolly (Clarinets), and Jin Theriault (Flutes) who are also Perhaps Contraption, the amazing musical entity who will perform the second part of the evening, referred to as “A beguiling, euphoric blast of energy.”The Scotsman”.

Expect an evening of  music, mischief and plenty of fun!