Some reports of a couple writer's first walk through the features of the Cirxus landscape are out.
What's On Stage says among other
things:
The stark and industrial setting for this piece of promenade theatre is instantly eerie and unnerving. There are posters of atomic bombs and mushroom clouds, a ghost-like woman wandering around with an accompanying rattle of radioactivity and a classroom dedicated to the study of all things nuclear; all reminds us why we find ourselves in this warped environment...
... The experience is simultaneously funny and disconcerting. Whilst involved in one situation there are many other scenarios happening around the space which you are not witnessing, adding to the idea of the unknown and therefore making every audience member’s experience completely unique.
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Quoth Remote Goat:
...Cirxus had a great overlaying mystery to it. Who were these people and what had happened to them? What was their "Home Sweet Home"? Picking up clues from snatches of scenes, led to the potential for answers through a kind of linear intermission, where a key character was introduced and the audience was specifically guided once more...
...Writer and director, John Harrigan deserves a lot of credit for the organisation of this brilliant cobweb of a performance, and for making something that could have gone so wrong, go so well. It's a great juggling act, worthy of the big top.
The lighting was ominous and the random groans reverberating through the warehouse added chillingly brilliantly to the sinister tone.
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Showing until 13/06/09 Arcola Theatre | 27 Arcola Street, London, E8 2DJ
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