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The Observer Review

Over at Theatre Workshop, Swansea's Volcano Theatre is doing to Ibsen what Charles Marowitz once did to Shakespeare. Under the direction of Nigel Charnock (ex-DV8), the physical theatre company takes randomly selected passages from Brand, A Doll's House, The Master Builder, Little Eyolf and When We Dead Awaken, cuts them up and treats them as if they were a dance score. Conversations are fragmented, spliced, repeated, speeded up and bashed into shape. Some of the more straightforward sequences could do with paring down but, at its silly and abstract best, the show sets a standard that more earnest deconstructors on the Fringe would do well to equal.

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