★★★★☆ 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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★★★★★ Attempting to understand Beckett’s writing is akin to learning to appreciate the Higg’s Boson. It’s the dark matter that sometimes counts for more than what’s immediately visible. . . .
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The Festival of Puppetry is the UK’s foremost international puppetry festival, celebrating puppetry and animation in all its forms on stage and on screen. Bristol seems to enjoy a non-conformist, highly individualistic yet cooperative spirit. That puppetry and animation should find its ground zero UK here should be no surprise.
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