THEATRE REVIEW: 32 Rue Vandenbranden (Peeping Tom) ★★★

32 Rue Vandenbranden (Peeping Tom)

Warwick Arts Centre

Friday 20th May 2016

Set in a mountain landscape with six performers and three campervans for shelter, 32 Rue Vandenbranden, translated to Pepping Tom, tells the story of the small community who are faced by their loneliness, in a 80 minute, no interval extravaganza, with incredible movement pieces and gravity defying performances.

Now it’s very hard to explain the plot to this piece of theatre, as there was little dialogue, but there were some fantastic sequences that happened even without the dialogue, which just proved that a piece of theatre could easily be told through movement.

The acrobatics used in the show were slick and and all the performers were clearly used to their advantage, which almost reminded me of a theatre piece I saw digitally called Mnemonic, from the company Complicite, just to the movement pieces in both productions.

Overall, Peeping Tom was a production I would not usually go to see, but due to a recommendation I did, and very appreciative that I did, because it was an evening of spectacle and a journey from all the characters told beautifully on stage.