GOAT ATE ITS LEGS
How to building weather in theatre? Not psychology. Not Backstory. With light, haze, airflow and temperature, so mood is felt as a shared field. We work with a simple premise: sometimes the body knows before the words arrive. The room is tuned to make that gap tangible and safe to inhabit.
Three levers cycle through the score: silence (breath, fabric, friction), darkness ( visual vacuum that lifts other senses), and ephemeral traces (beams in haze, quick reflections, dust in a shaft of light). Alternating deprivation and release heightens sensitivity; atmosphere leads, bodies and attention follow.
Performance stands next to this climate through real action and time: binding and counter-pull, loss of balance, friction and temperature. Everyday tasks are stretched—undressing, shaving, holding the gaze—until attention dips, returns and resets. The aim isn’t spectacle, but to re-train how we attend.
A parallel image-track runs through the work: sheep, divinity, punishment. It asks who is centred, who is kept as background, and what “fitting” costs when norms orient the body. The invitation is simple: notice that performers and spectators share the same air and pressure—and that this is already a story.
CONCEPT/SPACE DESIGN/VISUALISED/DIRECTOR
Jiaming Wang
PROFORMERS
Zifan Gu, Jiaming Wang
DRAMATURGY CONSULTANT
Athina Vahla
MATERIAL CONSULTANT
Laura Hopkins, Pete Brooks
SOUND ENGINEER
Dimitrois Coumados
COSTUME DESIGN
Yifan Jiang
STAGE MANAGER
Yuke Chen
COLLABORATIVE SCENOGRAPHY DESIGN
Peter Johnston, Jin He
ASSISTANT TO THE SET
Yi Tang, Rain Zhou
STAGE HEAD
Faust Peneyra
LIGHTING EXPERIMENT
Luoxiao Ran
STAGE TECHNICIAN
Michael Breakey
SPECIAL THANKS
Yui Yamamoto, Oleg Mirochnikov, Florence Meredith
CSMPDP, INTEATRO POLVERIGI ITALTY,