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Rhiannon Faith Company: Lay Down Your Burdens review

“Fizzing energy”
ReviewsNov 24, 202311:03 by Siobhan MurphyThe Pit, Barbican, London
Cast of Lay Down Your Burdens by the Rhiannon Faith Company at the Pit, Barbican Centre, London. Photo: Foteini Christofilopoulou
Cast of Lay Down Your Burdens by the Rhiannon Faith Company at the Pit, Barbican Centre, London. Photo: Foteini Christofilopoulou
Rhiannon Faith’s latest deeply compassionate dance-theatre work is set in a theatre-turned-pub-confessional and features Dominic Coffey, Shelley Eva Haden, Donald Hutera, Sam Ford, Finetta Sidgwick and Sara Turner

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