DEREVO - ARTICLES - The List, 1997

chaotic cabaret, maniacal .darner and comic violence The clowns appear both ridiculous and deeply shocking - shaven-headed, heavily made-up, semi-nude or costumed with an anti-style attitude reminiscent of Jeunet and Caro The first scene concludes with a defiantly hilarious strip-show and arse-kicking competition

The mood switches drastically, moving through astonishing scenes of mime, physical theatre, human sculpture, dance and acrobatics, all punctuated by a gripping, trippy soundtrack. Many pieces are achingly beautiful, others hint at dark psychosis with at least one being horribly violent and likely to induce pain in the viewer Imagine the id live on stage and you might be close

it is the razor-edged contrast m tone
that makes Red Zone so extraordinary
Intelligent but irrational, poised
between structure and the void, it is a
must-see m the truest sense
Apocalypse wow (Peter Ross)
• Red Zone (fringe) Derevo. The
Heasarxre Onwe 33) 556 6550. until
27Aug(not 18) 11 30pm.
£6 S0t£7 50 (£5/£6)

THEATRE REVIEW Red Zone

*****

If you want to shoot over the edge of theatre, tear down the fourth wall. create a spectacle that is beautiful but repellent, puerile yet profound, you will need to send in the shock-troops of the stage, the anarchists of the auditorium, the violent vaudevillains

Derevo: Send in the anti-clowns

Send m the clowns

Red Zone is the astounding achievement of Russian 'anti-clown' group Derevo, the company led by Anton Adassinsky, one-time colleague of Slava Polunin, whose Snowsnow was the hit of the Fringe last year But while Snowshow was a magical feelgood exercise in gentle melancholy. Red Zone is much darker

Derevo creates an opening sequence of discordant brass and drumming.

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		chaotic cabaret, maniacal .darner and comic violence The clowns appear both ridiculous and deeply shocking - shaven-headed, heavily made-up, semi-nude or costumed with an anti-style attitude reminiscent of Jeunet and Caro The first scene concludes with a defiantly hilarious strip-show and arse-kicking competition The mood switches drastically, moving through astonishing scenes of mime, physical theatre, human sculpture, dance and acrobatics, all punctuated by a gripping, trippy soundtrack. Many pieces are achingly beautiful, others hint at dark psychosis with at least one being horribly violent and likely to induce pain in the viewer Imagine the id live on stage and you might be close it is the razor-edged contrast m tone that makes Red Zone so extraordinary Intelligent but irrational, poised between structure and the void, it is a must-see m the truest sense Apocalypse wow (Peter Ross) • Red Zone (fringe) Derevo. The Heasarxre Onwe 33) 556 6550. until 27Aug(not 18) 11 30pm. £6 S0t£7 50 (£5/£6)
THEATRE REVIEW Red Zone *** If you want to shoot over the edge of theatre, tear down the fourth wall. create a** spectacle that is beautiful but repellent, puerile yet profound, you will need to send in the shock-troops of the stage, the anarchists of the auditorium, the violent vaudevillains	Derevo: Send in the anti-clowns
	Send m the clowns Red Zone is the astounding achievement of Russian 'anti-clown' group Derevo, the company led by Anton Adassinsky, one-time colleague of Slava Polunin, whose Snowsnow was the hit of the Fringe last year But while Snowshow was a magical feelgood exercise in gentle melancholy. Red Zone is much darker Derevo creates an opening sequence of discordant brass and drumming.