BABEL
From: Tuesday, 8th May 2012
To: Sunday, 20 May 2012
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Synopsis
Promising to be one the most talked about events of 2012, BABEL will be a theatrical experience of truly epic proportions. A spectacular outdoor show created for an iconic London setting, BABEL is staged through a unique partnership between WildWorks and Battersea Arts Centre and will feature a cast of 500 community and professional actors and musicians. BABEL tells of a gathering of the tribes. People who have been scattered for an age are returning to finish what they started eons ago. They mean to create a new city. A welcoming haven for strangers. A place to imagine and make the best we can be.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 11 May 2012
Babel is a site-specific World Stages London collaboration between Kneehigh offshoot WildWorks, the BAC, the Lyric Ham, Stratford East and the Young Vic. The best part of it is the queuing outside (rather like on the first day of a Lord’s Test Match), the bar inside, the gathering in the Pleasance round the corner and the mingling.
Maybe that will be enough, for the show’s final message is - oh dear - love life, slow down, chill out.
This is a hippie-dippy-type festival event, with coloured lights and rock concert vibe, no different from what Welfare State were doing 40 years ago. It involves fire and music and moving on the undesirables in their tent-like, bamboo-structured homes in front of a famous Victorian clock tower, bastion of the officials.
During this terrible weather it’s depressing to have to trudge around the park on a muddy surface, tuning in to some random yoga-style performances, amateur ...
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Lizzy - 16 May 2012:
The start was awkward, walking through the park with various people dotted around doing orinary things - a bit too 'performance art' for my liking. Then some variety acts, including a spoken word 'stage' where it was pretty hard to hear - what I did mangage to hear was either boring or in another language. I was wondering "is this it?" when the main show started. And there wasn't really much to it. The best bit was the man scaling the tower but the rest was just slow and boring. Luckily I got a free ticket as a local resident but then I have had to put up with the rather loud noise from the event every night, plus all the rehearsals before. It's now driving me up the wall and I can't wait until it finishes. ...
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WildWorks (Producer)
Battersea Arts Centre (in collaboration with Lyric Hammersmith Theatre Royal Stratford East and Young Vic) (Producer)
Bill Mitchell (Director)
Mercedes Kemp (community director) (Director)
Myriddin Wannell (Design)
Claire Ingleheart (Musical Director)
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