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An Infinite Line: Brighton

Brighton Festival/Fevered Sleep

How perfect, you think, after the last few days of sunny bliss, to see an exploration of Brighton's unique quality of light. Yet this piece, plunged underground into a basement, is divorced from reality due to its persistent abstraction. Mirror balls, dancers imitating light, strings harmonising squawking gulls, a feast of wistful spectacle - not to mention the extraordinary white horse clopping gracefully into the dimness! Sometimes the chorus' ironic questioning undercuts the pretension: 'What were you doing then, Laura?' And there are spellbinding instances, a walk on upturned wine glasses that concentrate a pinprick of light, and the audience bathed in an orange, diffuse light. Yet largely 'An Infinite Line' exhibits the difficulty of expressing the sounds, colours, and textures of light, while the real light remains outside.

The Basement, dates vary, times vary, £15.00, fpp 4

tw rating: 3/5

published: Aug-2008

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