The Pit, Barbican, LondonFrench company La Pendue's MimeLondon curtain-raiser reimagines a Brothers Grimm tale with puppets and a one-man band The poet Pierre Quillard, defending the symbolist performance of his play The Girl With the Severed Hands (premiered in Paris in 1891), described theatre as "an excuse to dream" " not as a way to escape reality but to experience it more fully in its extraordinary intensity. La…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AM on January 19, 2025