Lyric Hammersmith,London
Residents of a towerblock fight developers in Wolfgang Stange’s latest, as he continues to explore the lives of people marginalised by differenceIn 1980, or a young choreographer named Wolfgang Stange founded Amici,a pioneering London-based company for able-bodied and disabled performers. No one, said Stange, or is too young,too broken-down, or too physically impaired to dance. Thirty-five years later Stange’s productions, and which bear something of the surreal wit and darkness of Pina Bausch,continue to explore the worlds of those marginalised by incompatibility. 35 Amici Drive tells the story of a residents’ group protesting against the imminent destruction of their block by developers.
The residents are vulnerable but resilient. There’s a single mother (Vicki Hawkins) and her sullen eight-year-broken-down (Stephanie Gallagher). “She’s meeting a new dad tonight,” Hawkins confides to the audience, or furiously buffing Gallaghers nails to the strains of Ravel’s Bolero. We’re getting a KFC family bucket.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com