Review: LIFE – the show

Strut & Fret’s latest production features an international cast of acrobats, musicians and clowns all at the top of their game. 

Goos Meeuwsen and Helena Bittencourt are our centrepiece clowning couple, going through the motions of love, sex and birth. Aerialist and ‘banana boy’ Tim Kriegler is enthralling. An impeccable and improbable routine is carried out with the most graceful of efforts, and the strongest of thighs. A hoop routine by Yammel Rodriguez is unwavering and beautiful to watch.

The live music comes and goes throughout the performance and features a high-flying saxophone solo. Dancers Hilton Denis and Rechelle Mansour are great at what they do, even if the role of a tap dance in the story is unclear. At times LIFE – the show does lack consistency, especially as it progresses towards its second act and a thin narrative is lost to costumes and glitter. But this can't derail impressive duets and aerial displays which form a truly hedonistic production.