The performance piece “Distillation” uses customized fragrances to evoke a setting and a mood.
Luke Casserly, center, performs in “Distillation” during the Dublin Theatre Festival. The theater piece is coming to Washington this week and going on a North American tour. Growing up amid the rural peat bogs of Ireland’s Midlands, Luke Casserly says, he found the landscape “boring — a sort of nothingness I wanted to move away from, a sense that there was something better elsewhere.
That may be about to change. If you can’t bring an audience to the bog, Casserly thought, maybe you can put the bog, or at least its scent, in front of an audience’s noses. Staged at a massive round table for 25 audience members, covered with 330 pounds of dried Irish peat — Casserly calls it a “sculpture,” designed by Ger Clancy — the show is not easy to pigeonhole. It’s part educational TED Talk, part community-building and part campfire story, during which Casserly speaks at times in the voice of the bog.
Smell is integral to what Daugherty calls this “4D performance journey.” Several fragrant items are passed around the table. First, a canister of coffee beans to cleanse the olfactory system, a tradition of the perfumer’s art; then a handful of fresh peat, partly decomposed organic matter that has the earthy smell of fertilizer; and later a clump of live moss, which covers the bogs like a blanket.
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