Running time: 70 minutes with no interval
Suitable for 16yrs+
babel. noun. a confused noise made by a number of voices.
Written by Patrick Neate
Five years ago, Stan Won’t Dance smashed onto the scene and broke all the rules about what theatre and dance should be. Daring to say what is often left unsaid, the company is now back to hold the theatre world hostage with its most provocative and hard-hitting piece to date…Babel.
Combining explosive movement with words of mass destruction, the choreographic mavericks Liam Steel and Robert Tannion create the ultimate act of dance-theatre terrorism. Abrasive, anarchic, honest and uncompromising; nothing and no-one is safe as an all male cast collapse our safe ivory towers of political correctness, to ask fundamental questions about the Britain in which we live.
Commissioned by Swindon Dance and Salisbury Arts Centre, co-produced by Laban Theatre and Stan Won’t Dance in association with Apples and Snakes, supported by Arts Council England and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
AUDIENCE REVIEWS
“I am a frequent theatre goer – last night I saw Babel at Warwick Arts Centre – in fact I arranged the trip and included 6 friends. It was the most amazing and terrifying performance I have seen for a long time. Thank-you for creating such a memorable hour.”
Sharon Leftwich-Lloyd
Internationalism and Development Education Co-ordinator
The Polesworth School
“I recently had the opportunity to catch “Babel” at the Laban Centre theatre while I was visiting London from Vancouver, Canada. I just wanted to say thank-you to the performers and company for an outstanding show! I have never seen dance explore the idea of violence with such fluidity and liquid motion – it was beautiful, and made the work more disturbing because of that beauty. I look forward to catching more of your company in the near future!”
Caroline Farquhar
