Traces

TracesI decided to walk to the peacock theatre with my colleges from central that live in my building, the walk was direct and free; it was also dark and scary. It was on this walk that I came up with the best piece of advice I have for Londoners. Hesitation/indecision kills. Either cross the road or don’t, but don’t change speeds, if you are going to run, run, if not, don’t. It’s amazing what adrenaline will do for a body.

Right so the performance, outside it I had the pleasure of talking to Caroline Townsend. She was waiting for our American guests with her predecessor to her post. I had a short chat with them while we waited and then entered the theatre. I had the fortune of sitting with Neliswa and could talk to her before the production began. Now for another SM review.

I didn’t know it at the time, as I had made sure not too, but I was about to see a piece of circus. I like circus its fun fresh and can be very originally unoriginal. To say about the set, well it had two large poles in the centre grounded with ¼ inch cable capable of supporting a lot of weight, also technology on the ground was space and widely spaced allowing movements of a grant style. Wing space was quite large and the set append to be or a reclaimed style. The piano in particular looked particularly butchered. Projected onto the rear wall that was draped with assorted filth and cargo netting, was a live feed from the auditorium camera that we passed on our way into the auditorium; as a device to keep the audience entertained it was very cost effective.

The production began with an ominous voice over sarcastically telling us to not leave out phone on and the like. It was darkly funny quite like British humour I thought. The show had very little in the way of plot, but it didn’t need it, just a sort of guiding force between tricks, and that’s what happened. I rather liked the attitude to failure in circus; if you fail you try again until it’s done correctly. You recover and don’t let anyone know that it wasn’t part of the trick, this happened a couple of times but the recoveries were smooth and transparent, allowing uninterrupted action. The audience went along with it was well, whooping and cheering at ever little thing and even the larger ones.

You can say this for them, they know their psychology and timing it was very theatrical overall.