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Amato Saltone

Shunt, Inner London
From: Wednesday, 19th October 2005

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Synopsis

A name on a burned scrap of letter. An unseen figure watching a window. A fevered knocking at a door. Shunt turns the pages and prowls the streets of noir master Cornell Woolrich. The Shunt collective has been working for the last seven years creating live events in unusual spaces. Amato Saltone Starring Kittens and Wade follows the hit show Tropicana and is performed in their temporary home under London Bridge Station.

Our Review: starstarstar

27 January 2006

Billed as “a surreal fusion of dark comedy and wild visual performance” Shunt’s latest offering is Amato Saltone, currently unnerving audiences at the Vaults under London Bridge.

The Shunters love to toy with their audience’s mind, and Amato is no exception. On arrival you are given a key and before the ‘party’ even starts you have to walk down 400 metres of creepy, dark, empty vaults to get to the bar. This is just a pit stop before entering the performance area where you are given a card with your alias name on it and directions to use your key to open a locker. Mine contained an instruction to leave the party when I heard a certain word.

Once inside you’re in a penthouse apartment with large windows through which are projections of a city. It’s a swingers’ night and a pregnant singer stares intensely as attendants prepare the space with plastic matting and jumbo sized pots of Vaseline. A loud announcement - seemingly the voice of...

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194.154.22.54) - 1 February 2006: starstarstar

A highly amusing evening. Do not let your pre-conceived theatre ideals get in the way of a highly entertaining show, take it with a pinch of salt and laugh!!...

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