Improbable: Lifelines - Gulbenkian Arts Centre

Join us for an exclusive ‘work in progress’ development sharing of this powerful and important new project.

This is the first of our our new Gulb Lab performances. Over twenty-five years ago, fresh out of circus school, Matilda made an aerial- theatre solo called Lifeline. It was based on the simple metaphor of the vertical line of the rope as the timeline of a life – she went from birth to death, through every age.

Now in her fifties, as a mother and older woman, as she navigates her recovery from leukaemia, she is returning to this work – to the rope, the air, the themes of age, time and change – but with a new vision. Now ‘lifeline’ refers not only to the length of a life, but to explore how telling a life, just might be one way of saving it.