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Echo and Narcissus reviews

25th June 2024

USTINOV STUDIO, BATH

 Laurel Dalley Smith and Seirian Griffiths in Echo and Narcissus at Ustinov Studio, Bath. Photo: Foteini Christofilopoulou

Kim Brandstrup concludes his Grecian trilogy with a brilliantly unsettling dive through the looking glass

compellingly hypnotic

 

It is programmed alongside a short screening of Brandstrup’s deliriously beautiful Leda and the Swan, created for the Royal Ballet in 2014, and a solo oboist performance of Benjamin Britten’s Six Metamorphoses after Ovid op49. The latter, which comes between the two dance works, has a compellingly hypnotic quality, but despite the full-bodied performance of Judy Proctor, it’s hard not to feel impatient for the main event.

BY ROSEMARY WAUGH THE STAGE                                                    

https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/echo-and-narcissus-review-at-ustinov-studio-bath-by-benjamin-britten-and-kim-brandstrup


a brilliantly unsettling dive through the looking glass

 

This is followed by Six Metamorphoses After Ovid by Benjamin Britten, performed by the virtuoso oboist Judy Proctor. The six short pieces are Pan, Phaeton (who drove the chariot of the sun and was hurled into a river by a thunderbolt), Niobe (who was turned into a mountain as she mourned for her 14 dead children), Bacchus (of the famous wild feasts), Narcissus and Arethusa (who fled from a river god and was turned into a fountain).

by Foteini Christofilopoulou THE FINE TIMES RECORDER 

https://www.theftr.co.uk/echo-and-narcissus-ustinov-studio-bath-theatre-royal/

 

a study of image, desire and dysfunction

The performance of Echo & Narcissus was preceded by a screening of Brandstrup’s 2014 short film Leda and the Swan, and a performance by oboist Judy Proctor of Benjamin Britten’s Metamorphoses, whose moods, going from the eerie pastoral of 'Pan' to the agitato of 'Bacchus' and his feasts and the mournful notes of 'Niobe' lamenting the death of her fourteen children helped create just the right atmosphere.

(5 Stars)

by Teresa Guerreiro THE CULTURE WHISPER

https://www.culturewhisper.com/amp/dance/kim_branstrup_echo_and_narcissus_ustinov_studio/17947

 

kinetic storytelling with highly adept dancers

 

The dance is preceded by Leda and the Swan, an erotically charged short film Brandstrup made a decade ago with Zenaida Yanowsky and Tommy Franzen, and a live performance of Benjamin Britten’s Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op 49. The oboist Judy Proctor delivers the mood-shifting music with great skill, thought and purity of feeling.
(4 Stars) by Donald Hutera THE TIMES

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/theatre-dance/article/echo-and-narcissus-review-29kdnjc3k

 

small miracles of mirroring

It is preceded on this programme by a replay of Brandstrup’s 2014 dance film Leda and the Swan and a live recital of Britten’s Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for oboe, played by Judy Proctor. Each serves to set up the main piece, the solitary voice of the oboe wandering through timings and tonalities, the film built upon a disjunction, indeed a dysfunction, between desires.                                                     (4 Stars) by Sanjoy Roy THE GUARDIAN               

https://amp.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/jun/25/kim-brandstrup-echo-and-narcissus-review-ustinov-studio-bath-deborah-warner


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Instruments
Oboe, Cor Anglais, Oboe d'Amore

Ensembles
Promenade Quintet, Lonarc Oboe Trio, Lonarc Wind Quintet