Event | Acqua Azzurra (A Nasty Story) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Belvoir Street Downstairs Theatre, Surry Hills, NSW | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Date | 17 July 1991 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opening Date | 18 July 1991 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Date | 28 July 1991 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dates Estimated | No | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status | Professional | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Premiere | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description | "A collectively-devised piece about the legend of Bluebeard. The result is a theatrical performance without traditional form or shape in which movement and imagination have greater impact than words. This is visual and sensory theatre, striking and absorbing." Sunday Telegraph
“From the moment that six faces hover in space, like a clutch of Cheshire cats, the importance of the wall’s role is established. Acqua Azzurra is dependent on its visual component, and the confluence of skilful set design, evocative costumes, precise lighting and expressive movement make this aspect of the presentation work with exhilarating effectiveness….In terms of the spoken word, Clare Grant is a luminous example of how it should be….the less experienced performers…had more to say than they could manage”. ….” SMH “…..the trouble with Entr’acte’s open-ended approach to its excessively diverse material is that is insufficiently theatricalise in some places, while in others it seems abstracted to the point of self-obsession and self-indulgence…..What I like about Acqua Azzurra is its boldly feminist sensibility – its satirising of patriarchal archetypes, of sexual desire and of the way in which women are often reduced to the sum total of their body parts. Among the images that still flicker at the fringes of my memory are five women voraciously kissing an unadorned black wall, leaving behind sticky snail trails of saliva.” The Australian “…a recurring tone of chosen hysteria runs through this performance. It is as if these women are playing seriously with the tool of madness to cut and shape the stories they want to tell. It is easy in theatre to use madness and appear confused. To use madness and find the power and clarity of this state is much more difficult. The female performers in ‘Acqua Azzurra’ showed courage and skill as they worked with this two-edged sword”, On the Street. |
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Description Source | Reviewer's Opinion | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Genre | Other | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cabaret
Visual Theatre Group-devised Postdramatic Corporeal Theatre |
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Feminism
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Text Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Production Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Further Information | More reviews to be added. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event Status | Completed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Event Identifier | 15092 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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