Post by joem on Feb 22, 2017 23:12:21 GMT
Finished now. Part of The Vaults Festival. It was certainly great to see The Vaults so busy for the festival, loads of people millng around and the performance I went to was more or less sold out.
An interesting idea which doesn't quite come off. The story of disgraced cyclists' Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani's epic battle on the most fearsome mountain of the Tour de France, where Brit Tom Simpson famously died in the sixties. But also a comment on competitiveness, doping and more.
Two guys on static bikes on tage does have limited possibilities so the production uses actual footage of the mountain roads (not the riders) to create more atmosphere.
Ultimately this doesn't work that well dramatically for the simple reason that the conflict - sporting, personal and overall vision - is mostly reduced to a conflicting, contradictory set of monologues with little engagement. But a decent attempt to do something leftfield.
An interesting idea which doesn't quite come off. The story of disgraced cyclists' Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani's epic battle on the most fearsome mountain of the Tour de France, where Brit Tom Simpson famously died in the sixties. But also a comment on competitiveness, doping and more.
Two guys on static bikes on tage does have limited possibilities so the production uses actual footage of the mountain roads (not the riders) to create more atmosphere.
Ultimately this doesn't work that well dramatically for the simple reason that the conflict - sporting, personal and overall vision - is mostly reduced to a conflicting, contradictory set of monologues with little engagement. But a decent attempt to do something leftfield.