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Matthew Bourne's darkly dazzling dance drama, where lovers meet and part in a pub in foggy Soho, is a masterclass in non-verbal communication, says Georgina Brown
None of the ten sharply realised characters says a word. But their longing, lust and love are expressed with an astonishing eloquence as they tentatively reach out, hoping for a connection.
At one point in Matthew Bourne’s darkly dazzling dance drama, a character lip-synchs to the tune of Cole Porter’s ‘What Is This Thing Called Love?’. He has gathered them from Patrick (Rope, Gaslight) Hamilton’s lesser known novels and set them adrift in a foggy Fitzrovia in the Thirties, vividly realised by Les Brotherston’s design of an unglamorous London pub, The Midnight Bell, where they flit in and out, or stand cheerfully behind the bar. Bourne, who devised, choreographs and directs, makes movement and music (by Terry Davies) much subtler than mere words.
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