Exploring the absurdity of the fashion culture ‘IT girl’, dance-theatre company dANTE OR dIE brought their promenade piece La Fille à la Mode to the National Theatre this weekend as part of Watch This Space festival. La Fille à la Mode begins with a mysterious woman wielding an accordion who begins to play and, like the Pied Piper […]
Writings
Metis Arts: 3rd Ring Out: The Emergency
August 19th, 2011 by Dorothy Max PriorIt’s 2033 and this is the premise: What would happen if Suffolk got flooded, and you – a gathering of twelve random members of the public who, as ‘audience’ for this piece are gathered round a table with buttons to push and plastic policemen to position – you, yes you, had to make the key decisions […]
Shock N Awe: Muscle
August 18th, 2011 by Andy RobertsMuscle is an ensemble piece of verbatim theatre that explores what it takes to be a man. Through a series of collected stories the all-male company combine projection, dance and verbatim text to bring these personal accounts of manhood to life. Due to the form Shock N Awe have chosen to explore masculinity I was sure […]
Flick Ferdinando: The Caroline Carter Show
August 18th, 2011 by Lisa WolfeExuding the confidence of a singing sensation far above her worth, Caroline tells us about her travels around the country in her camper-van, picking up stories of other people’s misery and turning them into songs. Along the way she’s acquired a guitarist, Barney Strachan, deadpan and subtly undermining. Played by Flick Ferdinando, Caroline has zing […]
Tim Crouch: I Malvolio
August 18th, 2011 by Dorothy Max PriorI Malvolio is the latest of four works by Tim Crouch that interrogate well-known plays by a certain Will Shakespeare, viewing the story from the perspective of a minor character (here, Malvolio, the much-mocked Steward ofTwelfth Night, would-be lover of Countess Olivia, and the butt of Sir Toby Belch’s cruel tricks). This series of solo plays […]