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MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
Dance of delirium from depths of the soul
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes an engaging and nourishing account of the queer subculture that flourished in London between WWII and partial decriminalisation
RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography
Betroffenheit
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London EC1
4/5
BETROFFENHEIT, co-devised by choreographer Crystal Pite and actor Jonathan Young, mines personal trauma and the subsequent disturbance giving rise to an altered state of dependency as its subject matter.
The production is a delirious experience, with a “show-time” of acts jacked-up by post-shock delirium.
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