This is the show that I am going to see tonight. I can't wait!!! The review was written for the production last year so I hope that at this late stage it will be even more brushed up than before. I also saw Glow a couple years ago in Sydney, which the reviewer said was the prototype for this show. Glow only involved one dancer, and to me, this is a much more special performance.
Solo performances - to have enough skill and charisma to charm your audience for a long stretch. I've now had the good fortune to witness a few. I saw A Stretch of the Imagination, which is a class Australian play about an ageing guy who lives as a loner out in the bush. http://www.theatre.asn.au/production/2009/a_stretch_of_the_imagination_starring_john_wood
Children of the Devil was another play, an indie one, at Metro Arts in Brisbane almost a decade ago, of a man exploring his darkest corners of the psyche.
Brian Lucas doing Performance Anxiety, http://www.realtimearts.net/article/96/9820, which I don't know how to describe, I guess it was a parade through a selection of embarrassing, inhibited, bizarre parts of ourselves - what we feel afraid to show the public - but no less human.
Not like Beckett in Melbourne, http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/down-the-rabbit-hole/2006/07/20/1153166520353.html?page=fullpage, of which this summarising line from the article is perfect: The rabbit is the perfect figure with which to symbolise the colonial wreaking devastation on a native landscape.
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