It could have had potential
Find out what Pushkin thought of safe our new dance piece
I am a regular attendee of the Corn Exchange and this isn’t the best thing I’ve seen here. It had so much potential, I cannot emphasise that enough, but I thought it looked like the piece was made up on the spot.
It started well and defied the previous reviews it had been getting, but as it progressed actors in the background started to distract me more and more; when one character was dancing an actor in the background would start climbing something or putting something up.
There was one point at which someone was meant to fall off a building, but I felt that the lights faded out far too quickly and it left us with five minutes of silence as you saw the man walk of the stage and then five minutes later sneak back on and apparently come back to life, which they didn’t explain. Nobody questioned this except two actors.
I don't think that the point of the play was proven; the dilemma was there just for five seconds, the characters were, most of the time, grouped up except for an actor that seemed lost and forgotten. I felt that the piece was repeating itself over and over again only in different dance routines except for when one of the characters died.
I don' think that the characters had separate characteristics and I thought that made the piece boring. If you asked me who my favourite character was I would ask, ‘there was more than one?’
One thing did impress me though; how easily the men in the background who distracted me could climb one handed and make it look so simple. One dancer set the theme throughout the play and did most of the heavyweight lifting. He was blond with a really stylish haircut.
Words by Pushkin Choudhury