MAKOSH
THEATRE | CIRCUS | SPECTACLE
MAKOSH
By Polina Shapkina
Mon 07 July | 8pm
Event Details
Times & Dates:
Mon 07 July | 8pm
Duration:
45 min
Event Categories:
Theatre, Circus, Spectacle
Admission:
€16 (plus booking fee)
Age Suitability:
+14
Venue:
The Factory
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A dizzying epic.
Makosh is a 45-minute aerial theatre performance that takes the audience on a surreal journey through the human psyche. The audience meets the protagonist Psyche, as she traverses the realms of the MAKOSH universe, propelled into a disorienting pursuit of self-discovery.
Psyche is an autobiographical archetype embodying the emotional extremes of the human condition: from joy, love, and belonging, to horror, fragmentation, and isolation. As humans, we are wired for connection, for belonging, for purpose, for a sense of place within something greater than ourselves. Yet we are also haunted by contradictions. By shadow, doubt and the aching silence of disconnection.
MAKOSH confronts these dualities. It is a meditation on what happens when we do not face our inner darkness, when memory is buried, pain is repressed, and the unconscious begins to speak. What do we become when our shadow festers, unacknowledged? What truths emerge when we finally dare to look?
This work is a ritual. A journey of reckoning and release. A raw and intimate search for meaning, belonging, and self-acceptance.
Artist Bio
Polina Shapkina is a Russian-born Irish-reared artist, aerialist and emerging director. The inspirational core of Polina’s work comes from cultural folk elements especially where identities and traditions from separate parts of the world bear unmistakable similarities and cross-overs. Themes explored in Polina’s work are often psychological, mythological and existential. Her passion lies in creating fusions of art forms as much as connecting to audiences through her personal experience of the world. Since 2019, Polina has created and presented various solo works and 5 shows with her company Erebidae Circus In 2024 the final version of her most ambitious project to date: MAKOSH was completed in collaboration with Designer Bridget Ni Dhuinn under their new company name VolkiDana. MAKOSH was directed by Fidget Feet’s Chantal McCormick and has featured at Irish festivals such as Earagail Arts Festival, Pitch’d Circus Festival, Irish Aerial Dance Festival and Dublin Fringe Festival.
MAKOSH Team
Chantal McCormick: Director
Polina Shapkina: writer, performer
Bridget Ni Dhuinn: set design
Hannah Scully: performer
Ruairi O'Sea: performer, composer, musician
Sean Doyle: sound design, production manager
Counterweight: Jenny Tufts