"They put a new twist on stories we think we know, and, as Swan Lake shows, they will try anything and can make even a tragedy brilliantly funny."
It’s an audacious mix of high art and clowning, and it shouldn’t really work, but they get away with it
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Stage Talk Magazine
Narrating in rhyme, the pair prove themselves once again to be masters of
invention, clever wordplay and general silliness, and their improvised chorus
work is a guffaw-inducing highlight in the closing moments of both acts. Their delight in questioning the convoluted logic of the ballet’s storyline... is a droll and accessible primer for newcomers young and old.
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British Theatre Guide
Living Spit's
Swan Lake
Swan Lake. The most famous magical water-based avian ballet ever performed. But expensive, high-brow and
normally only at a big city theatre miles away from where you live.
Well, not any more!
Theatre Orchard and Living Spit have teamed up to make the smallest ballet ever performed (probably.)
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With Howard & Stu joined on stage by two professional real-live ballet dancers this is a proper ballet in miniature. The dynamic duo have promised to leave the tutus at home but promises are made to be broken... Suitable for anyone aged 6-106 (no older that that please), this promises to be the funniest, danciest, water-fowlest micro- ballet the world has ever seen!
13th December 2019 - 9 February 2020
Artsreach, Dorset
Carn to Cove, Devon
The Theatre Shop, Clevedon
Blakehay Theatre, Weston-super-Mare
Valley Arts
Salisbury Arts Centre
Tobacco Factory Theatres
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