GREAT EXPECTATIONS:SEE TUE 10. ‘When peoplethink otdance theatre music collaborationsthey expect high-kicking Bonnie Langtord-type Great Expecta-a-a-tions! So we havethisjoke inrehearsals thatwe'retryingtogeta high kicksomewhere inthe play. lthasn'thappened yet.‘
Norisitlikelyto. torTAG Theatre's new adapatation otDickens' classic. under lan Brown's direction. isa very un-showbiz combination of movement-baseddance. atmospheric music and non-caricatured acting. Takingthe central role ol Pip is Alan Cummings. betterknown as one haltoi Kelvinside'sVictorAnd Barry. 80 howdothe demands otcontemporary dancedittertromthoseot the Young People's AmateurDramatic Art Society?
‘lt's certainly changed my social habits." says Cummings. ‘I've stopped drinking anddrastically reduced my smoking—just because I hadto.You realise how harddancers work. Thelirstweekwas sheeragony. lt getsbetter. though we still haveto strap ourleetup becausethey‘re so sore.‘
TAG are bringingtogether the substantialtalents ol choreographerGreg Nash
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andplaywrightJohnClittord in whatpromisestobea stimulatingre-creation ot Dickens" world. Even with a scriptthatis continually evolving in rehearsal. it is no meanleatlorCliltordto have condensedthebroad scope ot the novel into play tormat. 'Johnhasdonea crackingiob.’ says Cummings. ‘Someotthe descriptivebitsareiust beautilul.‘ Unsurprisingly. thelirstdrattotthe script includedwrydirections suchas‘Dancers. dance. writerrests.' Theproduction is avoidingthetypically overblown Dickensian caricatures so beloved by
the cinema. ‘Everyone's being verytruthtul about it." explains Cummings. ‘The movement helps with that] Whattheyare working towards is not so much an overstatedcharacter comedy as a quirky charm retined by the concentration on movement.
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