★★★☆☆There are strikingly dramatic, wonderfully subtle moments in this movement-based performance installation by the multidisciplinary British company Clod Ensemble. Commissioned by Sadler’s Wells in 2008 for presentation off site, and now touring, the 45-minute production has an intriguingly unconventional set-up and a collage-style structure. An audience limited to 50 enters a dimly lit space where the options are to sit on a cushion or to stand. What ensues is an act of communal voyeurism centred on a cast of eight, everything heightened because the performers are only ever visible behind, beneath or inside transparent surfaces or containers. They are like a living cabinet of curiosities or a marvellously lit collection of misfit specimens who seem unaware of how closely, even clinically, we’re observing them.

Source: The Times October 31, 2017 17:03 UTC