★★★★☆ German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig’s play is clever on many levels. Most keenly it illustrates how easily fascism can slip under the door, seducing unwary mindsets with its nationalistic appeal, seductive old school concepts of chivalry and faux arguments about natural law, art and entitlement
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★★★★☆ A Dangerous Woman, one of the show’s elements, is a powerful telling of the story of Alice Wheeldon, a committed socialist, suffragette and peace activist, known to be harbouring conscientious objectors on the run at her home in Derby. She was to become a target of MI5, who sent an agent posing as another ‘conchie’.
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★★★★☆ In an Adelaide suburb, a working class couple, Bob and Fran Price, has worked selflessly to give their four kids everything they didn’t have themselves. But the family idyll they like to project is about to be shaken by the life choices taken by their two sons, Mark and Ben, and daughters Pip and Rosie.
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★★★★☆ Throughout the three pieces performed tonight, Carnaval, Chacony and Gypsy Mixture, there was emphasis on the ensemble, with only fleeting moments devoted to solo performance. Staging was always stark, with an entirely empty space allowing for maximum movement.
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★★★★☆ Without words the actors explore the aftermath of loss with acute observations of body language and memory. In a final act of love, the deceased partner returns, in spirit, in an attempt to free her surviving soul mate from the grip of nostalgia – a highly sensitive piece that left some in the audience wet-faced by the end.
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