Over at sister-site Created in Birmingham there’s a competition to win tickets to see Cruel by Deborah Colker at Birmingham Hippodrome tonight (Friday 14 May).
All you have to do to enter is email ‘CRUEL’ to createdinbirmingham@gmail.com. Be quick though – the draw’s being done this afternoon at 2pm.
Cruel explores the many different forms that cruelty can take in a relationship. It unfolds over four movements, the first of which sees an enormous globe-shaped chandelier suspended above the action. In a later scene violence is explored as two dancers perform on a 5-metre-long table which is spun around the stage as knives are thrown into it. The final act sees a selection of vast mirrors pivoting across the stage, creating dazzling reflections that give surreal and intriguing views of the dancers’ bodies and movements.
If you don’t win then tickets are still available and there’ll be a second chance to watch the show tomorrow night too (the last show of International Dance Festival Birmingham, in fact).
