Twenty five years after Lloyd Newson brought DV8 Physical Theatre to perform his seminal work at the Adelaide Festival, Enter Achilles explodes back to life on stage, its unflinching scrutiny of masculinity as relevant as ever in this outstanding production.
Dylan Cole interweaves tragedy with hilarity in his monologue as dishevelled, daytime-drinking hoarder Jeremy Parker, whose veneer of cheery enthusiasm starts to crack as his attempt to de-clutter forces him to face the grief he’s buried. ★★★★
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Akram Khan’s gift for expressing profound allegories of the human condition through contemporary dance is as present as ever through the emotional power, pathos and beauty of this performance by six outstandingly skilled dancers.
Twenty years since its release, Nitin Sawhney breathes new life into his soul-stirring, genre-fluid and multiple-award-winning album Beyond Skin. Still intoxicating with its beauty and emotional power, it feels as relevant as ever.
Inspired by a short story by Haruki Murakami, South Korean writer and director Lee Chang-dong’s darkly beautiful, sensual and disturbing portrayal of alienation and loss is so mesmerising and immersive that two and a half hours pass by as if in a dream.
If ever the world needed a mirror to reflect back the complex and troubled state of humanity in our dystopian world, it is now. With the wild and ecstatic physical poetry of Grand Finale, Hofesh Shechter Company delivers to powerful effect.