EXTRAORDINARY WALL [OF SILENCE]
REVIEWS
The work reminds us that theatre allows, and perhaps demands, that worlds can be conjured anew each time: we can find new symbols and signs to tell stories, and both terror and beauty can be realised through shared codes and gesture
★★★★
The Guardian
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A powerful retort to a society that privileges spoken language
★★★★
The Stage
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Ad Infinitum have triumphed with Extraordinary Wall Of Silence. It's poetic enough to be beautiful and confronting enough to be powerful. This is a piece that deserves to run and run.
★★★★★
Broadway World
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Ad Infinitum is a company known for its physical storytelling, which here proves the perfect medium. The four performers tell the story by enhancing gestures and movement and they weave BSL and spoken language equally into the piece. For anyone who doesn't sign, it is a deft demonstration of how language is not limited to voice.
★★★★
What’s on Stage
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The show is masterful in the way it puts together personal testimony and historical context to show how Deaf experiences have been shaped by societal attitudes to speech and hearing. It creates believable, nuanced stories for compelling characters.
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Immersive and poetic in the best way, challenging stereotypical viewpoints - profoundly moving
★★★★★
Reviews Hub
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There’s a righteous anger about social injustice in this show that is palpable in the actors’ performances, and one that audiences can share and take away with them.
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A show that breaks down barriers as well as taboos
★★★★
Stagetalk Magazine
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Dynamic piece of physical theatre
★★★★
The Morning Star
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A tremendously enlightening piece of evocative theatre that stays in your mind long after the show has come to an end
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The culmination of three languages, tense sound-stylings of Sam Halmarack and a commanding performance from David Ellington, Matthew Gurney, Moria Anne McAuslan and Deborah Pugh, make for multi-sensory insights into an untold story.
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A clarion call to arms, a justified raging scream for acceptance and inclusion
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A powerful, poetic performance
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A hard-hitting performance that asks the most serious of questions