The Little Soldiers
From: Wednesday, 15th May 2013
To: Sunday, 2 June 2013
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Set within an old circus troupe, The Little Soldiers recounts the absurd and surreal battle between two brothers pursuing the same impossible dream and how their thriftless ambition destroys their lives and the sense of their existence.
Our Review:
17 May 2013
The Little Soldiers by the international physical theatre group Theatre Re is a brave telling of the rivalry of two circus performers, loosely based on the legend of Cain and Abel.
In general, the show still feels like a work in progress that would benefit from taking more risks and further exploring the relationship with the props it puts such emphasis on. For example, the microphone is used to represent the reins of a horse and the lead as the circus ropes, but other than that it is just a microphone.
The step ladder (used so brilliantly by James Thieree in La Veillee Des Abysses) is just that - and we are left underwhelmed by the production's ability to magically transform objects and thereby the imagination of the audience.
The director and performer Guillaume Pigé adopts a haunting musical soundscape to narrate; combining the fiddle, keyboard, accordion and live recorded relays o...
Creative
Patrick Collier (Producer)
Guillaume Pige (Director)
Alex Judd (Music)
Katherine Graham (Lighting)
Bernie Byrnes (dramaturge (Other)
Malik Ibheis (Costume)
Amedine Bello (Costume)
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