I have 2 x tickets plus champagne reception for THIS saturday!!!
James Thierree's La Veillée des Abysses
http://www.wmc.org.uk/index.cfm?alias=jamestheir
Contortionism, acrobatics, mysterious transformations, music and
dance fuse to create a wonderful fanfare of the physical as
Thiérrée, with his impish talent, spins one utopian fantasy after
another
`A marvel unlike any piece of circus that you have ever seen... it
is so playful yet also a wild emotional tempest... it will blow you
away ' - The Guardian
`...fresh, funny and completely disarming... You smile and remember
childhood's endless optimism' - Evening Standard
www.cryingoutloud.org/event_veillee.php
www.worldwidedanceuk.com
Grandson of Charlie Chaplin, Thierree has starred in a number of
films, including Vatel and Total Eclipse and was recently cast
opposite Claire Danes in Jodie Foster's circus film Flora Plum,
which is currently on hold. Thierree learnt the trapeze in his
father's circus Invisible Circus.
James Thiérrée's latest creation is a fantastical mix of circus,
theatre and invention.
One of the most critically acclaimed shows of 2004, La Veillée des
Abysses received five star reviews during its short run at the South
Bank
Son of the gloriously eccentric Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée and Victoria
Thiérrée Chaplin, James Thiérrée comes from a long tradition of
music hall, variety and circus. His particular mix of visual
trickery, acrobatics and clowning is both fantastical, unbelievable
and extraordinary.
He is joined by opera singer Uma Ysamat, contortionist Raphälle
Boitel, dancer Niklas Ek and capoeira dancer Thiago Martins, who
together cook up a virtuoso dish of fantastic invention.
"Captivating. Theatre at its sweetest and least probable." DAILY
TELEGRAPH
"The set is brilliant, the performers are all excellent and every
scene is inspired."
THE EVENING STANDARD
"A honey of a show. Bursting at the seams with ideas, talent and an
infectious sense of discovery**** " TIMES
Lyn Gardner
Saturday April 10, 2004
The Guardian
Shipwrecked on its own ethereal beauty, somehow joyous and yet
bereft at the same time, the latest show from French circus creator
James Thierrée is a marvel, unlike any piece of circus that you have
ever seen. Acrobatics and dance, opera and contortion, flying and
capoira all go hand in hand as a loose narrative unfolds that sails
you into the far reaches of the imagination.
Beginning with a storm that makes the blasted heath in King Lear
seem like a breeze, the show transports you to an enclosed world - a
derelict place rather as you imagine Miss Havisham's house in Great
Expectations - where a group of people appear to have been marooned.
What follows is somewhat like a game that adults play with child-
like seriousness, in which there are insiders and outsiders, a group
and individuals, the balancing acts of maturity, the sheer delirium
of letting go and swinging high.
The radio crackles as if offering memories and messages from another
distant, half-remembered world.
A set of ornate gates become a barrier through which only some can
slip and others must play out a password with their bodies; a three-
seated sofa, which four are struggling to occupy, becomes an
absurdist picture gallery with disembodied legs and a detached head
reading a book. There is even a pantomime-style horse and a
brilliant demonstration of the domino effect.
What's so fantastic about the show - which certainly isn't intended
for the youngest members of the family - is that it is so playful
and yet also a wild emotional tempest. Its clowning is not
buffoonery, but light and witty - and therefore all the more
painful. There is something about the show that reminds you of a
modern art gallery where the pictures and installations have come to
life and walked off the walls. It will blow you away.
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