ECHO AND NARCISSUS
by KIM BRANDSTRUP
Laurel Dalley Smith, Seirian Griffiths, Jacob Wye, Jonathan Goddard, Archie White
★★★★ “Exquisitely formed and performed… a potent blend of dark depths and beguiling beauty”
The Guardian
★★★★ “A work of considerable and well-considered beauty. Highly adept dancers”
The Times
★★★★ “Beautifully fluent … small miracles of mirroring”
The Guardian
★★★★ “Compellingly hypnotic”
The Stage
★★★★ “Brandstrup uses a dancer’s physique so completely you almost forget verbal communication exists at all, or is necessary”
The Stage
In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Echo is doomed only to repeat the words of others. Never able to speak nor to be heard, she circles the beautiful Narcissus, who only sees and hears himself. Misapprehension prevails as they move through a strange, echoing hall of mirrors and reflection.
Echo and Narcissus is the concluding part of Kim Brandstrups trilogy of dance works inspired by greek myths, commissioned by Deborah Warner for Ustinov Studio at Bath’s Theatre Royal. The trilogy’s other parts are Minotaur and Cupid and Psyche.
Echo and Narcissus
Choreographer- Kim Brandstrup
Cast:
Laurel Dalley Smith
Seirian Griffiths
Jacob Wye
Jonathan Goddard
Archie White
Oboe– Judy Proctor
Sound Design- Eilon Morris
Set and Costume- Antony McDonald
Lighting- Chris Wilkinson
Commissioned– Deborah Warner for the Ustinov Studio, Royal Theatre Bath
Production– Theatre Royal, Bath
Premiere– June 19, 2024
Running time– 1 hour 6 minutes
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