Home, Manchester – 14 September 2017. Reviewed by Marcus Richardson
4****
Wedding is a contemporary physical theatre piece set in a dystopian world, offering the audience an entertaining performance with powerful and meaningful scenes. The play opens up with an actor coming down a slide and entering this new world and given a job straight away, a note to add is that there were several languages used in the play from French to German and even Arabic, this is an interesting concept as we focus more on the actors bodies and the stage rather than the words spoken, at first we were listening to this actress on stage who spoke German and the audience laughed due to her energy and confusion on what was happening.
The main aspect of this performance is the use of body and manipulation and creativity of telling a story, if I could pin point one exact scene in the play, it would be between a man and a woman’s relationship and how it’s breaking down the contemporary use of dance linking in with props that were on large poles which flowed along with the scene and when needed the actor would interact with them. This creativity is something I love to see in theatre and it didn’t look out of place whatsoever.
This play has a lot of symbolism and meaning to it, so it would be stupid without talking about a character who is homeless and lives in a suitcase (strange I know) with his family, at first his entrance is comical and you are made to believe he is the fool of the play, but his story develops into this energetic tale of survival. The scene with him in often had me lost into the play and I forgot I was in a theatre.
The Manchester Home Theatre is new to me since moving to a new city and from what I’ve seen I’m my first week of living here I can say that I will most definitely be watch more theatre by the Gecko Company and at home theatre. If you as a theatre goer want to feel the way I feel and see new and exciting theatre go and watch The Wedding at Home theatre Manchester.