Druthers

Published Monday 13 August 2007 at 11:25 by Duska Radosavljevic

In Dan Shorten and Karla Shacklock’s new show, good ideas come in suitcases. Quite literally, there are several moments in the course of these 70 minutes which will change the way you view your baggage - whether it be literal of metaphorical. As a self-declared theatre and multimedia company, Precarious utilizes every available surface to turn something on its head in the way we view things around us. Occasionally this involves upside down dancing, but mostly it is about giving inanimate surfaces bursts of life through an innovative projection of images and use of digital animation. The characters in this piece are all endowed with striking visual identities too making all their solos as well as their interactions with each other extremely riveting to watch. The only drawback to this piece is its over-ambitious and mostly unnecessary use of text, with its paraphrasing of Shakespeare, Alice in Wonderland and various books of wisdom. It could easily have lost some 20 minutes and still have been one of the most original examples of theatre around.