Kan inte låta bli. Måste dela med mig av lite recensionsrader från Liverpool Daily Post. Så här skriver de om "Compagnie of Strangers" som spelades på Dada-fest i lördags:
"It was an ethos which stood the group and the audience in excellent stead on Saturday, offering a strange, surreal, thoroughly unique theatre experience full of surprises and unsettling images.
Set in almost perpetual gloom, Compagnie offered a dreamscape of music, dance, shadowplay and mime.
Presented as part of DaDaFest, it loosely follows the journey into the past of an old man who, in a clever play of shadows, is shown rising from his wheelchair and becoming a boy.
It was reminiscent in style of a darker version of Cirque du Soleil.
Scenes flowed from the blackly comic to the disturbing.
A group of stooped and crooning old ladies were revealed to have axes in their handbags and a taste for human flesh, another saw a fight become, thanks to magical sound effects and excellent mime, bloodily gruesome.
The whole of the production was technically very polished.
Set on a bare stage the only props needed were some gauzy sheets – used to create an arresting vision of a woman in a mental hospital – plus two multi-purpose wheeled boxes and a 10ft ballerina puppet.
Visual tricks, such as a row of dumpy babies hatched out of eggs, were laid on by the dozen, drawing delighted gasps from the audience.
Some scenes were played out a little too long once the novelty value was exhausted and the lack of dialogue and deliberate ambiguity meant some sagging momentum towards the end.
But on the whole the 80-minute production – which dispensed with an interval – managed to engage throughout."
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