Part of the Main’s solo and silent All By Myself sadly doesn’t work for me on the VAULT Festival
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Part of the Main have already had one present at this yr’s VAULT Festival – the raucously entertaining Bloody Mary: Live! – and have a 3rd lined up for subsequent week in The Tinker. In the center although is All By Myself which proves to be one thing of a left-field shock. A movement-led solo piece with no phrases is a daring proposition, add apocalypses and avocados into the combo and it’s much more so!
We’re on this planet of social media influencers and All By Myself opens with an eye-opening sequence by which our explicit affect is placing collectively some content material, working via totally different angles of head tilt, pouty smiles and tones of voices to achieve out to her followers. Only factor is, it’s the literal finish of the world and so she actually is having to place a courageous face on it, hashtag #realworldproblems.
It’s an interesting idea, co-written by Jessica Bickel-Barlow (who additionally directs) and Charlotte Blandford (who performs), however one which didn’t fairly work for me. Lily Howkins’ motion route assists Blandford in a extremely expressive efficiency but it surely isn’t abundantly clear what the emotional hook is, why ought to we care significantly for this younger girl. As fascinating as it’s, the format works towards the play.