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Theatre listings > The Pygmy Eclipse. - Part of Arches Live! 2005. Performer Creator - Adam Read of Derevo.. Venue -The Arches ww w.thearches.co.uk 253 Argyll St Glasgow 0141 565 1023 Dates - 16 & 17 Sept 2005 at 8:30pm. Run Time - 50 mins no Interval. Reviewer - Tom Tabori. Body performance of the utmost sincerity. Adam Read's is unmistakably the muscular male body that contorts and stretches about its space, sweat dripping from his scrawny, loin cloth-clad frame, silently etching out a niche for itself amidst a new world. The Pygmy Eclipse is a piece of body performance of the utmost sincerity. It could almost be an exercise in eliciting empathy. Although I laughed at the first sight of Read, scurrying about the top of the wall at the back of the space before dangling off its edge, his buttocks wobbling with his effort, never is it ridiculous, the laughs are always of delight or pity for the poor creature, never of embarrassment. The Pygmy Eclipse is part of The Arches LIVE! festival of experimental theatre, plays that seem to point the finger at a society of rhythmic cliché, a distinctly twenty-first century theme with no better relief than Adam Read. As Read moves up the steps between the audience, the raw tension of screen-less performance is here in earnest; he dangles from the scaffold above and we will him on his way. Nothing lies between Read and the audience, and may it never. The almost magical realist quality of The Pygmy Eclipse is original as a dream. Although a half naked man doing body performance is not an invention, its performance here is as free of the chains of cliché as the ideas themselves. His performance does not seem to respond to any genre, though Read is at devised theatre's pinnacle. Indeed, as his body curls up, foetus-like on the floor, or mimics the frog that can be heard in the sounds around him, his struggle seems to become a struggle for a real self, really him, really LIVE! ©Tom Tabori 17 September 2005 - Published on EdinburghGuide.com Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is thelma@edinburghguide.com Although every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information presented in these pages, no responsibility can be accepted for any errors or omissions. Theatre listings >
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