Mark Bruce Company: a double bill that does not fail to absorb

Jonathan Goddard as Frankenstein in Mark Bruce's Frankenstein

Eleanor Duval and Jonathan Goddard in Mark Bruce's Frankenstein

Anna Daly and Jonathan Goddard in Mark Bruce's Frankenstein

Jonathan Goddard as Frankenstein in Mark Bruce's Frankenstein

By Graham Watts, 28 March 2024

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“great lighting design can enrich and enliven a work that is short of resource”

Reviewed at The Place, London on 26 March 2024

Frankenstein (Mark Bruce)

Liberation Day (Mark Bruce)

Mark Bruce Company

Mark Bruce, Director

Phil Eddolls, Set Designer

Dorothee Brodrück, Costume Designer

Guy Hoare, Lighting Designer

Jonathan Goddard, Dancer

Cordelia Braithwaite, Dancer

Carina Howard, Dancer

Anna Daly, Dancer

Eleanor Duval, Dancer

Dominic Rocca, Dancer

Mark Bruce Company - The Odyssey

Graham Watts, 24th February

Mark Bruce's new production is inventive, visually appealing, challenging, loud and hyperactive; and sits so well in the arresting intimacy of this unique theatre

***11

Liam Francis Dance Company in Alchemy: an absorbing London debut

Daniel Pratt, 7th November

Liam Francis Dance Company at The Place brings an instinctive and intelligent debut for a choreographer in-step with what it is to be a dance artist now.

*****

A visual spectacle: Tom Dale Dance Company in Surge & Sub:version

Graham Watts, 21st March

An absorbing interaction of human movement and animated light, optical illusions and supreme energy.

***11

Richard Alston Dance Company returns one last time to The Place

Graham Watts, 27th November

A poignant farewell leaves the home audience wanting more.

****1

Fagin's Twist is back at The Place

Graham Watts, 25th September

A fresh and surprising take on Dickens' classic tale

****1

Romeo and Juliet but not as we know it

Philippa Newis, 27th February

Choreographer Ben Duke offers a candid glimpse of Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers if they had survived the gauntlet of death draughts and daggers.

*****

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.