Showing as a revival alongside Two Cigarettes In the Dark, Vollmond, meaning full moon, was first performed in 2006. The company of twelve dancers offered a chair for the audience’s ‘ghost to have seat too’, embodying our alter-ego on stage. They filled a bleak, barren, landscape with a series of sketches drawing on social relationships and behaviour […]
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Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Two Cigarettes in the Dark
February 15th, 2013 by Thomas JM WilsonTwo Cigarettes in the Dark opens on a stage that is anything but dark. Instead a brilliant white high-walled ballroom occupies the space, framed on three sides by room-sized glass-fronted vivariums – verdant tropical foliage in one, a mini desert and cactus in another, and a giant fish tank in the third. These decidedly artificial landscapes […]
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Imitating the Dog: The Zero Hour
February 14th, 2013 by Simon BensonIn terms of plot, The Zero Hour must surely be Imitating the Dog’s most ambitious production to date. Conceived as the final part of their Harry Kellerman Trilogy (following previous pieces Hotel Methuselah andKellerman), The Zero Hour continues the company’s exploration of the interactions between film (especially cinema), theatre and the construction of narrative. The Zero Hour (or Stunde Null in the original German) was […]
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Robert Lepage: Playing Cards 1: Spades
February 11th, 2013 by Charlotte SmithViolence and symmetry are on the cards in Robert Lepage’s highly constructed Spades. It’s the first in a quartet of pieces, and the mind boggles as to how hearts, diamonds or even clubs could follow suit. Spades is set in Las Vegas in 2003. The gambling revolves around not only casinos, but also the invasion […]
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Boogaloo Stu: Crimplene Millionaire
February 8th, 2013 by James Foz FosterAs we take our seats in the upstairs theatre of the Oval House we are confronted with a stage laid out with a spiral of large orange dots looking like a relative of the game Twister. In the centre sits an Orville the Duck on a turntable and off to the side is a 1970s […]