After working together on the well-received theatre production of Luke Sutherland's Venus as a Boy, he and Christine Devaney have a high expectation barrier that wasn't fully met in this piece.
The basis behind the performance is finding someone else's letter and the effect on one character's reality (Michael Sherin) being tormented and influenced by questions of a life imagined through the letter-writer (Devaney).
Building together a piece that is combined of spoken-word ponderings, music and a duet between Devaney and Sherin, they intertwine around each other, almost never touching but sensing each other's presence but the premise never really goes anywhere and there's a lack of charisma and drive behind the piece.
Devaney's physicality in moments of the piece were wonderful, spontaneously changing to convey each emotion, ranging from belligerent gyrations and angular, animalistic poses to delicate, fragile pirouettes.
Set against a score provided by Sutherland and Jer Reid, which uses a combination of discordant guitars, voice, violin and electro-looping, the vibrant music elevates the production, building and relaxing in perfect unison with the moments of physicality and stillness.
There were, however, too many moments of stillness and chorographical repetition that became overshadowed by the luminous music, the magnetic musicians often drawing the eye away from the static dancers.
Times: 5-16 August, 8.30pm
Found will be touring Scotland in October
© Lindsay Corr, August 2009