Jealousy - reviewpublished Thu, Feb 09 2012 11:39 GMT
The Print Room, LondonMost literary adaptations set choreographers the tough challenge of reducing a complex story to a danceable structure, but with Jealousy there's no such problem. Alain Robbe-Grillet's 1957 novel is all structure and very little narrative. A repetitive sequence of observations, written from the viewpoint of a man suspecting his wife of adultery, the point of the novel lies in the hard, detailed brilliance of its style: its experimental format and its accumulating atmosphere of claustrophobia.As a literary source it's a fascinating gift to choreographers, and the four joint creators of Jealousy – James Cousins, Hubert Essakow, Daniel Hay-Gordon and Morgann Runacre-Temple – tackle it with enormous verve. The enclosing set, designed by artist Laurence Kavanagh, evokes both ...
Click for more articles from www.guardian.co.uk |
|