Fuerza Bruta

Synopsis

The show combines the most physical theatre with the most stunning theatrical imagery the UK will have ever seen, and plunges its audience into a world that is at times hard, dark and aggressive, and at other times joyous and celebratory. Twelve performers hurtle through this 65 minute show at breakneck speed, using every elemental force known to man. At times the performance treads the edge of real danger with alarming effect, the audience engages with what increasingly becomes an investigation into the mind of a crowd, where occasionally one person is left alone, struggling against the masses. Like those of De La Guarda, the visuals and effects are stunning. Performers run and tumble across a vertical wall of technicolour cloth, a man runs headlong through a wall, two people try desperately to connect from opposite sides of a huge spinning and whirling sail and - most extraordinary of all - performers dance in watery world just above the audience s heads. This all takes place to a soundtrack that traverses thumping club beats to the mellow sounds of new world music. The show is awash with colour and light, at times the bright strobed and head spinning lights of a nightclub, at other times soft, warming and beautiful colours fill the space.

Our Review:

6 June 2006

Fuerzabruta – “Brute Force” – is a show you simply can’t argue with. It is an event of such staggering non-complexity and physical beauty that you are reduced to a state of gibbering wonder and relief when it’s all over – after just 70 minutes.

Yes, folks, the Round House in Chalk Farm is herself again. Or, rather, after a £30 million facelift and re-build, the re-named Roundhouse is up and running as the most exciting venue in London, and spiritual hippies of all ages can once more gather in its precincts and go one step beyond.

The show takes up where its head-banging Argentinian predecessor, De La Guarda, which stormed this space five years ago, left off. A man is running for his life through disintegrating walls and keeps running even when shot in the back and spouting blood.

There you have it, a perfect statement of emotional defiance and survival, the very spirit of the theatre expressed in a flash, in a moment, in a nightmare. For...

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80.195.236.40) - 20 August 2006:

Just go. Preferably late on one of the limited club nights as I did. An extraordinary circus of attempts at intimacy. I was in tears, exultant, exhilarated, exhausted. Extraordinary, obviously....

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