ENTER ACHILLES

A rare, rich, devastating, triumphant work of art … dramatic coherence, human integrity, irresistible visual power, were all there in the most outstanding work I have seen all year.

Daily Telegraph

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Twenty-four years have passed since Enter Achilles knocked Adelaide for six. “Audiences put [it] way ahead of anything else as the best the Festival had to offer”, wrote The Australian in 1996 of this funny, disturbing and prescient physical theatre work involving one night in a British pub with eight lads, a stacked jukebox and a skinful of lager.

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The ground-breaking original production was made into an Emmy Award-winning film and won accolades the world over. Now legendary auteur and founder of DV8, Albury-born Lloyd Newson, feels the time is ripe for a re-examination.

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There’s a new set of lads and the world outside the pub has changed. As Newson says “with the advent of #MeToo and Brexit, it’s a timely moment to revisit the work”. Nonetheless the core of the work – “how men, these men, police one another’s behaviour for weaknesses and deviations from what’s considered traditional masculine norms” – remain the same.

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With a handpicked cast, this is Achilles re-booted with steel tipped irony. It’s also the former director of DV8’s first-ever collaboration with another company, the world-renowned Rambert.

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CREDITS

A work by Lloyd Newson (DV8 Physical Theatre)

Choreography Lloyd Newson with the performers (past and present)

 

Original Set Design Ian MacNeil                                       

Original Music Adrian Johnston

Original Lighting Design Jack Thompson         

                                       

Creative Associate & Tour Director Hannes Langolf                                 

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