Little Bulb's 'Orpheus' is continuing its tour at the Liverpool Everyman from 20-24th and Birmingham Repertory Theatre from the 28-31th of October. If you can catch it there then I highly recommend you do and you can find links to tickets on the Little Bulb website here.
Little Bulb Theatre's production of 'Orpheus' is a reimagining of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Persephone in the style of the European cabaret of the 20s and set to an eclectic soundtrack of club jazz, mock-opera and the music of Django Reinhart. If that sounds like a mad mix that's because it absolutely is, and it's a bloody spectacle to behold.
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| From Little Bulb Theatre's website |
The production is a co-production between Little Bulb and the Battersea Arts Centre and following the tragedy in March it's wonderful to see work of such colour and optimism still emerging from there. Every moment of the play burns with such vivacity which keeps the mostly wordless plot and the cabaret-inspired frame narrative so enthralling that as an audience you barely notice any time pass. It was a tenet of Nietzsche that Greek tragedy should be a living consolation in its ability remove the audience entirely from reality, and that is entirely the world created here. The story itself has practically no words besides Persephone's song and the narration of the host - and Eugenie Pastor's Yvette Pépin is so emphatic and passionate that one can't help but be totally involved in the tragedy, as she herself is so hyperbolically affected by the story she is telling one can't help being dragged into that world of heightened emotions and tragic fates.
