GLASS-EYE Theatre bring their exciting production of The City and Iris to the Bay Theatre at Weymouth College next month.

This will be the company’s debut at the venue and in Weymouth and their play is a physical, visual and comic feast.

The action centres around Iris, played by Julia Correa while ‘The City’ is performed by a talented chorus of five actors.

Without a set, the ensemble creates Iris’s world themselves. Ingeniously contorting their bodies and a length of red rope, they become the creaky wardrobe in Iris’s bedroom, the books in the library and the lifelike trees on her walk to work.

The ensemble also create all sound effects, from Iris’s radio alarm clock to her rattling commuter train, as well as a ‘soundtrack’ in the form of a recurring and haunting four part harmony.

Artistic director Cath Johnson said: “Iris’s every day is a haze of grey, and today seems like any other morning.

“But when her glasses break in a seemingly innocent accident, she finds herself departing on a strange journey through the city she thought she knew.

“As the city comes to life in bewildering and thrilling new ways, Iris starts to see the extraordinary all around her – in her co-workers at the library, the prophetic newspaper vendor she passes every day, the ducks in her local pond – and even in herself.”

She added: “We’re delighted at the prospect of sharing our own brand of physical storytelling with a wider audience. We can’t wait to perform this uplifting contemporary fairytale for audiences young and old alike to enjoy.”

Glass-Eye Theatre, which formed in 2009, specialise in physical storytelling. Hailing from five different countries, the company works collaboratively to create image-based, physical storytelling from scratch.

They manipulate objects, bodies and voices to create a unique and enigmatic world of physical theatre.

The company trained in the pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq at London International School of Performing Arts, which encourages a playful approach to improvisation, mime and original theatre creation.

Iris and the City is at the Bay Theatre, Weymouth College, Cranford Avenue, Weymouth on March 13 at 7.30pm Tickets are available by calling the 24-hour ticket line on 01305 208702 or visiting weymouth.ac.uk/the-bay-theatre