Tag Archives: Physical theatre

Song of the Goat: Macbeth

Song of the Goat: Macbeth

August 11th, 2012 by

Amidst the very misty, thick stage smoke I can just about find a seat. Before Song of the Goat’s Macbeth commences, director Grzegorz Bral addresses us with the invitation to ‘watch it with your ears’.  Lights dim and when vision permits we see a semi-circle of performers bathed in muted half light, amber toned. Half seen, all […]

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Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio: Detention

Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio: Detention

August 11th, 2012 by

Hong Kong company Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio’s Detention is a non-verbal physical theatre piece and acrobatic comedy combining clowning, martial arts and percussion. The scene for the show is a high school class room, its blackboard chalked with the words ‘be a good student’. Enter, one a at a time, three mischievous, highly active teenage boys. They […]

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Clout: How a Man Crumbled

Clout: How a Man Crumbled

August 7th, 2012 by

In How a Man Crumbled, Lecoq trained Clout Theatre invite us to dive head-first into the absurd and violent world of Russian poet Daniil Kharms. They tell their tale with a great deal of panache, using a provocative mix of dark clown, slapstick and surrealist imagery, and the end result has something of the feel of […]

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Dancing Brick: Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice

Dancing Brick: Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice

August 6th, 2012 by

Behold Captain Jane Ko and her trusty robot sidekick Stark, going where no woman has gone before, into the land that time forgot. There are fossils and relics and remembrances of things past. There are new discoveries that seem worryingly familiar, forgotten quests, and retrod paths. Captain Ko is a triptych of short pieces by […]

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Derevo: Mephisto Waltz

Derevo: Mephisto Waltz

August 4th, 2012 by

‘You forget that all the feelings of the world, the rains, the sounds, the cities, the birds, the people, and everything… is you,’ says Derevo’s announcement of their inspirational new ensemble work, Mephisto Waltz. Know that we are intrinsically part of everything, and that everything – good or bad – is part of us, is the […]

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