David Hughes Dance

T02004912486

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Archive :: production:T02004912486, dance or ballet:S0613033467, venue:V605

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The Red Room

Pestilence, decadence, grotesquery... The David Hughes Company and Al Seed have collaborated to create a contemporary and visually shocking interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe s classic tale The Masque of the Red Death. Barricaded in in his opulent abbey-mansion, a prince entertains a party of revellers. Outside the world is on the verge of apocalypse, the land is plague-ridden and dying, but as long as the wine flows and the musicians play, what reason have they to care? Weaving a multitude of dance traditions, improvisation and extreme physical theatre, this collaboration is a true horror show for the stage and a distorted reflection of the culture we inhabit. Trav 1