Flying pizzas, flying chairs, flying 5 pound notes. No surprise the seaside city of Wellstone is in turmoil. The sergeant is satisfied it’s ghosts: it’s actually a baffling case for Inspector Tate (Owen Bleach). And he’s not too completely satisfied when London sends down his nemesis, the mysterious Rodriguez (Flo Wiedenbach) to analyze the disappearance of an American waitress (a robust efficiency from Lexie Baker). It appears every thing centres round Norwegian resident Tom Marvel (Halvor Schulz), who has all of a sudden gained miraculous magic abilities. Except these magic abilities aren’t his, however the product of an unintentional friendship with Griffin (performed by…
Rating
Excellent
A humorous, touching and energetic piece of bodily theatre from a extremely achieved solid.
Flying pizzas, flying chairs, flying 5 pound notes. No surprise the seaside city of Wellstone is in turmoil. The sergeant is satisfied it’s ghosts: it’s actually a baffling case for Inspector Tate (Owen Bleach). And he’s not too completely satisfied when London sends down his nemesis, the mysterious Rodriguez (Flo Wiedenbach) to analyze the disappearance of an American waitress (a robust efficiency from Lexie Baker).
It appears every thing centres round Norwegian resident Tom Marvel (Halvor Schulz), who has all of a sudden gained miraculous magic abilities. Except these magic abilities aren’t his, however the product of an unintentional friendship with Griffin (performed by the acrobatic Pierre Moullier), who occurs to be invisible.
The multinational, various solid of 5 play a number of roles, effortlessly slipping between characters by donning a kagoul, a pair of police epaulettes, or a Cornish accent. The proceedings are overseen by a DJ behind the stage (Jonathan Ben-Shaul) whose sound results and music mixes punctuate and illuminate the motion.
What makes this theatre firm stand out is the extraordinary physicality of the efficiency: the solid glide round, above and under one another in tightly choreographed scenes requiring precise timing and precision. A scene depicting a struggle in a pub, baffling when seen from the angle of a CCTV digital camera, makes excellent sense when it’s later repeated with the presence of the invisible Griffin. Scenes the place the CCTV is rewound, or performed in sluggish movement, are notably pleasing. To make bodily theatre look not simply balletic however easy takes large ability.
With a script that neatly slips between comedian and tragic, it is a massively entertaining 75-minute present carried out by a universally ready and enthusiastic solid. The play questions the character of friendship, of affection and deceit, with an professional lightness of contact. Highly beneficial.
Dramaturgs: Rosanna Mallinson, Jonathan Ben-Shaul
Producer: Akimbo Theatre Co
No One performs at Omnibus Theatre till 28 January 2023. Further info and bookings could be discovered right here.