12 mars 2020

Revisor, Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young, Sadler’s Wells, review: a nightmarish, beautiful, mind-blowing journey

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In 2015, the Canadian duo of contemporary choreographer Crystal Pite and dramatist Jonathon Young, together with Pite’s company Kidd Pivot, unleashed their new show Betroffenheit. A borderline-genius study of bereavement, inspired by a horrific personal tragedy – Young’s losing his daughter and her two cousins in a fire – it was one of those once-in-a-blue-moon shows that felt genuinely unimprovable.

In the wake of that, and with Pite continuing to deliver one first-class work after another in the interim, hopes were almost cruelly high for their new collaboration, Revisor. But the duo has not disappointed one bit.

First seen in Vancouver last year, and this week getting its UK premiere, Revisor is based on Nikolai Gogol’s 1836 anti-corruption farce The Government Inspector (Russian title: Revizor). The thumbnail plot is that the craven officials of a small Russian town hear that an inspector is coming, incognito, to check up on them; but they mistake another, entirely different visitor for the inspector, and he ends up playing on their mistake and exposing their corruption anyway. 

Source: The Telegraph 

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