"This is amazing, I saw it in the woods in Cornwall this summer - it is very, very good" (From one friend on Facebook)
THE DANCER & THE DEVIL
Thursday 20 October 8pm
Set in a secret bar, a club, a speak-easy in a country smothered by war, Cornish company Rogue Theatre present a cabaret of those displaced, those who have had to hide, to run away from their past lives with hastily packed cases bursting with secrets and stories.
Bright, sparkling and full of comic mischief, The Dancer and The Devil invites you to lose yourself in a world of twisted cabaret, the smell of woodsmoke and perfume, the taste of danger, and the wild thrill of the forest..
The company draw on the stories of gypsy and Jewish communities who survived the Second World War as Ollie Oakenshield co-founder of Rogue explains:
"In our story, people have hidden in the woods but they are found by soldiers and have to entertain them with cabaret-style performance. There is also a love story interwoven with it."
With writing and text written by Anna Maria Murphy (Kneehigh Theatre; Red Shoes, Trystan and Yseult, National Theatre and BBC Radio 4) resplendent live music by Julian Gaskell (Julian Gaskell and the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists).
" An exotic and erotic mix of dance, music, poetry, prose and circus skills... surprising and, at the end, devastating."
(Julia Taylor, What's On Stage)
See the review in Dorset Echo What's On Wednesday 19 October
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/leisure/stage/9313637.Exotic_cabaret_mix_hits_Dorchester_Arts_Centre/
Dorchester Arts Centre 8pm (door and bar 7.30pm) £11 / £9 members / £8 under 18s and concessions. For ages 10+
www.roguetheatre.co.uk/dancer-and-the-devil
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