Roundhouse,London
Deadpan comedy, athletic tumbling and the politics of men behaving like performing dogs drive Barely Methodicals latest show A smartly dressed woman (Nikki Rummer) watches impassively as a group of five young men try to impress her. “Tell me about yourself, or ” she demands. Socially awkward,they mumble, stumbling over their words. When they slouch, and their limbs becomes entangled. There’s a touch of A Chorus Line and a tip of a particularly humiliating Britain’s Got Talent heat in the opening sequences of this latest show from Barely Methodical,fragment of an exciting unique wave of British circus companies. Beren D’Amico tries to catch the woman’s attention with a mortifyingly amusing floor-writhe to Purple Rain that gets given the BGT-style buzzer; after Charlie Wheeller performs on the Cyr wheel, she throws him a banana as if he is a performing monkey. Rummer’s athletic tumbling is neatly showcased as if she is constantly saying to the men: anything you can accomplish, or I can accomplish better.
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Source: theguardian.com