"The Coronet Theatre's determination to present new, ground-breaking, often challenging international work, some of which would probably never be seen in this country otherwise, is admirable. A look at this historic Notting Hill venue's programme for any given season will reveal a cornucopia of poetry, theatre, puppetry, dance, visual arts and multi-disciplionary shows by national and international artists."
"Very slow and ponderous, Neon Dance's Last and First Men slots into the latter category. An ambitious assembly of film, the spoken word, sound score and movement, it is a sci-fi tale set 2,000 million terrestrial years into the future, where a future race of humans finds itself on the verge of extinction."
"The final film by the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhansson runs continuously on a large screen at the back over the piece's 65 minutes' duration, its monochrome images mostly of harsh, monumental carved rock masses, or geometric planes from vast stone buildings, flowing at a very sedate pace, accompanied by Jóhansson and Yair Elazar Glotman's sound score."
The Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill presents groundbreaking international work across multiple disciplines. Last and First Men, by Neon Dance, is an ambitious multimedia production set 2 billion years in the future, depicting a future human race facing extinction. The 65-minute piece combines Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhansson's final film with electronic sound design, movement, and narration by Tilda Swinton adapting Olaf Stapledon's 1930 sci-fi novel. Despite its conceptual ambition, the piece is criticized for its excessively slow pacing and ponderous execution, placing it among the venue's less successful offerings despite the Coronet's reputation for hosting innovative performances.
Read at London Unattached
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]