In the tiny world of contemporary circuses it is rare to catch one as big, fat and juicy as this at a theatre near you. The crowd at the luxurious Wales Millennium Centre was purring with anticipation as the curtain went up on an expectedlyurban landscape of flats and boxes, seedy street-lampesque lighting, graffiti, video projections, […]
Reviews
Forced Entertainment: Void Story
November 11th, 2011 by Thomas BaconForced Entertainment are unpredictable, sometimes playing with an audience’s reaction as much as the conventions of performance; you can neverexpect, only anticipate. And it is that sense of anticipation that hangs in the air of the auditorium tonight. The stage is set with desks on either side, microphones, reading lamps, scripts, sound-desk and the ever […]
Daedalus Theatre: A Place at the Table
November 4th, 2011 by Harper RayA Place at the Table is the latest offering from Daedalus Theatre. Devised and written by the company, this performance is the full-length version of a scratch shown at Camden People’s Theatre in 2009. It begins with the audience left waiting as the late-starting company make some unseen touches. Finally, we are invited into the darkened […]
Reckless Sleepers: Schrödinger
November 3rd, 2011 by Thomas BaconReckless Sleepers reopen a world within a world: presented before us is a restaging/reimagining of their 1998 work, Schrödinger. A large black box consumes the stage. One side is open to the audience allowing us to see inside of this monolithic structure filling the main theatre of the Arnolfini. It shows the hallmarks of use and […]
Clod Ensemble: An Anatomie in Four Quarters
October 28th, 2011 by Terry O'DonovanThere aren’t many artistic directors of theatres with a capacity of 1500 seats who would commission a show for an audience of only 200. Yet that is exactly what Alistair Spalding of Sadler’s Wells has done for Clod Ensemble’s An Anatomie in Four Quarters, which although it doesn’t quite live up to its potential, nevertheless playfully […]