Purcell Room, LondonAn uncanny central performance is the making of this beautifully precise workAnimated dolls are always worrying. From Coppélia to Petrouchka, from Jessie in Toy Story to the sexualised replicants in Blade Runner, they are always ambiguous, always at once innocent and precociously knowing. This sense of the uncanny pervades Jakop Ahlbom's darkly comic performance piece Lebensraum, in which two mal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PM on January 18, 2014