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Judy Proctor
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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
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
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Instruments
Oboe, Cor Anglais, Oboe d'Amore
Ensembles
Promenade Quintet, Lonarc Oboe Trio, Lonarc Wind Quintet
