Performed over and under a suspended stage that swings through the air like a great pendulum, Compagnie MPTA / Mathurin Bolze's Du Goudron et des Plumes is spectacle circus, opposite in terms of aesthetic and scale to Bolze's spare and exquisite collaboration with Hedi Thabet, Ali. Sideshow found the show grandly empty when it was at the Mime Festival last year, but, for the most part, audiences were rapturous, and if nothing else it's a sight worth seeing – an incredible example of set design as circus apparatus.
Read Sideshow's review of Du Goudron et des Plumes.