The director of After The Rainfall , Jack Lowe and the performers and devisers of Curious Directive, have created a very exciting and innovative visual production, which is pleasing on the eye and entertaining.
The narrative is a little more challenging and jumps like a time machine from rural Cumbria to raging sand storms in the Sahara. From the Arab Spring to colonial Blighty.
The use of projected video and surround sound creates a vivid audio-visual-human puzzle. When pieces of the jigsaw set move, the actors become objects, tents, hooks, dunes and furniture. A kaleidoscope of different scenes and settings unfolds before your eyes, created by the performers interacting with the set and the technical effects.
The simple costumes provide another optical layer, which when combined with the narrative, really transform the mood and locality of the related stories. The overall effect is very successful and you not only watch but from time to time, actually feel the atmosphere of the staged action.
Well done to the cast, Gareth Taylor, Danusia Samal, Russell Woodhead, Naveed Khan, Karina Sugden and Colette Tchantcho. All of whom multi-task as characters and pieces of set.
Georgia Lowe’s stage set was impressive and worked well as the dilapidated community hall but also provided a versatile backdrop to the other locations and landscapes on display.
Paul Henley Washford
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