02 March 2016

Dreaming in code


Review by: Paul Towers, 02 March 2016
Dream In Code
2 Faced Dance Production
Curve Studio 2 March 2016

“Dream In Code has some quite nice eye candy”

As a critic/reviewer I try and find something positive to say about every production, no matter how impenetrable or incomprehensible it is. So, here goes. Dream In Code has some quite nice eye candy to distract from the lack of narrative.  Also there are a couple of well choreographed set pieces which show off the dancers’ talents but offer no help in trying to fathom what the author is trying to say.
The stage is set with three festival-style pop-up tents. Could this be a story of male bonding Deliverance-style? Or maybe it is about alien abduction? That’s it. Those are the only two off the wall explanations I can come up with for what I have just seen. Neither makes any sense, but then neither did the production.
My incomprehension was further compounded by the Studio’s awful sound system. It was way too loud and wrongly focussed for us to hear the few lines of dialogue that may have gone some way to helping me decipher what was going on onstage. Who knows?
This theatrical ‘experience’ reminded me of one of the self indulgent, esoteric pieces of TIE performance so beautifully savaged by League of Gentlemen’s Legz Akimbo.

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