Category: Physical theatre
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5 stars – powerfully unsettling Sheol is the name of the afterworld in ancient Hebrew traditions. According to different textual sources, it has either positive connotations to it, or negative, or neither. A soprano and three musicians are the characters of this performance created by the Grotowski Institute and Katowice Miasto Ogrodów.
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5 stars – towards human and beyond A character is there, sat on a chair, who resembles a man in a suit. He is looking back, aware of being looked at, and this awareness shapes his movement, as he piles and drops and bites and rolls and piles and drops.
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5 – irresistible, masterfully crafted Commedia The mission is as simple as impossible: to trace the history of Commedia dell’Arte in 50 minutes. One of the actors is desperate to start, but the other two don’t seem willing to collaborate… The down-to-Earth humour typical of the Commedia is extended beyond its boundaries, in a playfulness…
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5 stars – engagingly surreal Who is Monkion? It’s easier to say what they are not. They are not humans, and they aren’t capable of empathy. They move in a funny way, and they are obsessed with… Benedict Cumberbatch! So much so that they have kidnapped him, and they have to figure out what to…
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4 stars – New traditional tale A couple of twins has been separated at birth. Renzo is Italian and Mi Ho is Taiwanese (their mother, the queen, was polyamorous). A green bird secretly suggests to each of them to go to Monterotondo, but their meeting unleashes an uncontrollable series of events…
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5 stars – explosive A rodeo clown aspiring to become a cowboy is surprised by his shadow, who isn’t going to let go of him. So begins their funny story, full of energy, vitality and high spirits.
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4 stars – breathtaking acrobatics Two acrobats, and the difficulties of collaborating. A female and a male body: there is a chance that she can also have him climb on her and she can carry his weight. So, they try this chance.
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4 stars – Dark, intense frenzy In Mr Jones’s farm, the pigs have taken over. Unlike humans, pigs say they deserve food because it keeps them alive to organise the other animals and protect them against the bipeds. ‘Four legs good, two legs bad.’
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4 stars – ensnaring (for spectators and magpies) A solo show about money, but on stage are four characters… Or four ‘instances’ of the same persona. And many questions, among which: what does inequality mean in our society?
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5 heart-wrenching magic Betún is a child who lives in the street. Like 100 million other children, in the streets he meets adult people. Unlike 100 million other children, his story is sublimated into poetry.
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