“At a time when so much contemporary dance in Britain seems to have hit a dead end, it’s heartening to find DV8 blazing a fresh, dangerous trail and taking a large, enthusiastic audience with it.” The Observer
" Explosively political work, powerful, angry, sometimes shocking. The outstanding performers were deservedly celebrated by the audience." Deutschlandradio
"The seriousness of this production can’t be missed." Berliner Morgenpost
"Highly political dance theatre: angry, powerful, emotional, mercilessly exploring the human existence in our globalised era of religious fundamentalism." tanznetz.de
Australian Premiere
DV8 Physical Theatre
International
DV8 Physical Theatre is renowned for breaking down the barriers between dance and theatre and personal politics, and above all communicating ideas and feelings clearly and unpretentiously. It is determined to be radical yet accessible and to take its work to as wide an audience as possible.
For their first appearance in Adelaide since the ’96 Festival’s Enter Achilles, director/choreographer Lloyd Newson leads an internationally hand-picked multi-ethnic cast in a poetic but unflinching exploration of tolerance, intolerance, religion and sexuality. DV8’s newest creation is based on hundreds of hours of audio interviews collected throughout the United Kingdom with people directly affected by these issues.
To Be Straight With You comes to Adelaide direct from its world premiere season in Berlin.
“ The persecution of people because of their sexual orientation is every bit as unjust as that crime against humanity, apartheid. We must all be allowed to love with honour.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Incorporating dance, text, documentary, animation and film, DV8 refuses to be defined.
Co-produced by spielzeit’europa I Berliner Festspiele and National Theatre, London. An Artsadmin associated project.
