THEATRE REVIEW: "Everything Flickers" is a heartwarming and thoughtful piece of promenade theatre
“The moon does not hold grudges.”
Everything Flickers elicits hope amidst a sea of cultural horrors through a physical theatre piece. Playful and storied, enjoy a show that enlivens your heart.
Directed by Eliza Smith with deliberate artistry, Everything Flickers thoughtfully questions the role of art in a crisis-ridden world. This work, a collaborative creation by many theatre talents - Briannah Davis, William Gammel, William Gammel, Nathan Calvert, Clea Purkis, Joe Paradise Lui, Leah Robyn, Rebecca Riggs-Bennett, Delaney Burke, and Matthew Erren - invites the audience into a promenade-style experience.
The promenade format of this piece encourages audience members to interact and move freely throughout the space, where we can take in different viewpoints of the performance. This immersive approach to storytelling calls each of us to consider the role of making and playing in our own experience of sustaining life. The show makes loving tributes to other performances and poetic art pieces, including an excerpt from the poet TS Eliot. Enriched by live music performances, audience participation, and wonderfully unexpected elements, Everything Flickers will engage viewers from many walks of life and ages.
The narrative weaves between the irreverent to honouring art history, while pondering whether or not art can be ruined. I found the personal stories of friendship deeply moving, and a fresh and engaging theatrical experience.
A heartwarming and contemplative conversation, Everything Flickers at the Blue Room Theatre offers a unique blend of playful inventiveness and thoughtful reflection.
The project took several years and extensive collaboration to develop, and if you wish to support this work please visit this link.
