Reviews

Lead image - Photographer: Lesley Martin

This company’s performance raises the bar of acceptable performance to dizzying heights. The dramatic opening gave the hint that this show is special. The ten performers use their bodies to create bustling artistic forms backed up with simple staging and costumes, and music and lighting so integrated into the movement that it became a scaffold for the daring physical feats.

This production is so much fun that it’s dangerous. From the hilarious Spanish accents to the outrageous flamboyance, fabulous costumes and brilliant performances, it rarely slows down to catch its breath.  

It starts from the premise of it being impossible to stage in the small box that is the Hayes Theatre, then remarkably pulls it off without a single major prop being moved.

To successfully stage this intriguingly-plotted play is definitely an achievement. Kudos to Mockingbird Theatre and its talented members who have brought this production to life. It is imaginatively staged in the round, where every audience member can see and hear clearly.

Creative genius and the artists who possess it and spend their lives striving to create lived and performed experiences of it for us to share, often nests in the elusive realm of the impossible. The Theatre takes her prisoners – theatre makers and audiences alike – where our shared memories are often littered with flaws, mishaps, errors of judgement, indulgence, and unhappily unmet expectations.