Ockham's Razor
Aerial theatre company
Ockham’s Razor
The Lowry, Sat 8 December, 2007
High-flying drama will be at The Lowry on Sat 8 December when acclaimed aerial theatre company Ockham’s Razor present a dazzling triple bill. Combining circus, dance and visual theatre set around pieces of aerial equipment, this is an entertaining and thought-provoking production.
London-based Ockham’s Razor derived their name and philosophy from the medieval writer William of Ockham who declared that the simplest choice was always the better option. The company consists of Alex Harvey, Charlotte Mooney, and Tina Koch who met at Circomedia Academy of Contemporary Circus and Physical Performance where they all trained in aerial and physical theatre.
Their triple bill includes Arc which tells the story of three people adrift on a life-raft that’s too small. The aluminium aerial raft, rigged 3.5 metres off the ground seems to float in the air. During a crisis the best and worst of humanity are revealed.
Inspired by Holbein’s woodcuts of The Dance of Death, Momento Mori is a graceful and intimate duet on a suspended metal frame. It won the Jeunes Talents Cirque award when premiered at Theatre de la Cite Internationale, Paris, 2004.
Every Action is a playful look at the bonds that form when people are thrown together. Four strangers meet before 25 metres of rope looped over two pulleys. If someone pulls on one side of the rope, the rope on the other side is affected. The characters are drawn together as they climb and wind around each other, hoist each other into the air and send each other plummeting to the ground. As they explore this elevated set of scales they discover the meaning of altruism, antagonism and reliance. Every Action is at once playful and arresting and looks at a world where everything you do will affect someone, somewhere.
Posted on Wednesday, 28 November 2007 under Press Theatre Press