The Burnt City
Excellent reviews for Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City. Co-directed and choreographed by Maxine Doyle.
“Ambitious, intoxicating – simply nothing else like it… Punchdrunk’s Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle return to Woolwich with this richly designed, inventively choreographed immersive experience about gods and monsters.” 5* from The Stage.
“Founder Felix Barrett and his co-director and choreographer Maxine Doyle rely on bold, elegant, wordless movement and a marrow-curdling soundscape for a powerful evocation of mood… I was overawed by the rich, vivid, momentous achievement of Barratt, Doyle and their cast and cohorts here. Simply astonishing.” 4* from the Standard.
“Directors Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle pick up the knotty yarn of Greek tragedies, in particular Aeschylus’s Agamemnon (the first part of his Oresteia) and Euripides’s Hecuba, and weave out of it a thrilling world of ecstasy and terror.” 4* from Broadway World.
“It’s all hauntingly beautiful thanks to Doyle’s ominous slo-mo choreography and the silent actor-dancers’ extraordinary physicality” 4* from TimeOut.