Blue Man Group

Synopsis

The silent, blue-skinned, bald-headed trio take audiences through a multi-sensory experience combining theatre, percussive music, art, science and vaudeville.

Our Review:

15 November 2005

For 21 years, the New London was home to Cats, which famously turned the theatre into an environmental playground for the eponymous creatures to come to life in; now it has newly become the home to an even weirder, wilder life force in the Blue Man Group, a trio of mute (and mutating) performance artists who seem to have come from another planet to face our world with a mixture of bafflement and beguiling innocence.

Dressed entirely in black, only the whites of their eyeballs are recognisably alive; their bald heads are swathed in a kind of blue latex that renders them indistinguishable from each other. They pound out rhythms on drums and giant xylophones made of plumbing pipes, and create modern art out of catching paintballs in their mouths and spraying the contents onto canvas; at other times, the drums themselves erupt in explosions of colour as paint is poured onto them and beaten into the air.

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82.141.216.210) - 10 October 2006:

An amazing show. It was beautiful and crazy, funny and surreal....

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