Oh my, what pretty things! It is as if a group of kids had been let loose with the dressing-up box, with fruit-gum crowns, a smoke machine, candles and lots of glittery paper. Russian company Derevo has turned Dante's story of his journey from hell to purgatory and heaven into an image-led crowd-pleaser. Watching it, there were times when I thought that Sartre got it badly wrong: hell is not other people, it is indifferent physical theatre.
That is not to say that this show isn't enjoyable if you let it all wash over you. Unless you are on quite intimate terms with Dante's original, that is what you will have to do anyway. There are some lovely things here to delight the eye, not least the way the piece evokes all the tortured humanity and twisted bodies of a medieval painting. But the show feels like the theatrical equivalent of eating too many sweets.
Even within the hour the piece is repetitive, and the physical work has none of the razor-like precision that made the company's previous show Once such a joy. Plenty will think this is fringe heaven. More like purgatory, where Eden is so close and yet so far.
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