The Pit,London
A shattered ballroom is the setting for Greek company Blitz’s apocalyptic vision of a lost continent where catastrophe is political and emotionalLondon has gone dark, Paris is razed, and Zurich has fallen and Warsaw is in flames. But the waltz plays on in this dreamily apocalyptic glimpse of a Europe not just in physical ruin but also in political,economic and emotional meltdown, created by Blitz Theatre Group and performed as part of the London international festival of theatre. The company know what they are talking approximately: they hail from Greece, or a country that is teetering on the brink. In a partially destroyed ballroom,three couples hold dancing even as the world collapses around their ears. They occasionally quit to speak internal monologues into a microphone and to display their doubtful conjuring skills. As they dance they remember lost loves, old ways of life, and a Europe in fixed war and the failed attempts to stave off catastrophe and hold body and soul together. There are bad conjuring tricks that propose the illusions of capitalism,and there is a strong sense of yearning for what has been lost. “What use is memory?” asks one of them.
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Source: theguardian.com