'The Lovely Bones'- Bryony Lavery
A subtle experiment with physical theatre retells Alice Seabold’s much loved novel with a unique and imaginative flare. Lavery had a big task on her hands to portray this particularly sensitive story, which follows the perspective of young Sophie Salmon as she watches over her family, following her rape and murder. This performance was strangely heart-warming considering the subject matter, while also leaving not a dry eye in the house, and this was very much down to director Melly Still’s creative eye, which drew heavily from physical theatre. She still however managed to maintain an essence of that traditional theatre style audiences are comfortable with, and this was a clever approach, so as to not scare traditionalists away. That being said, as a lover of contemporary performance I feel she could have pushed those elements further and produced a real dazzling spectacle. Designer Ana Inés Jabares-Pita did a fascinating job with her vast angled mirror, which sat at the back ...