By Rendered Retina
The Hat
Warren
Brighton Fringe
May 5
‘Form’ is a non-verbal, physical and visual journey into the wonderful worlds our minds transport us to when we are bored and we allow it to wander..
If you work in an office and do the dutiful 9-5 then Form is one of those reality altering experiences which will leave your world changed, perhaps in a small way, but you’ll notice vivid imagined ways of escaping appearing behind shelves, alongside desks and perhaps in a single sheet of paper.
The tightly knit chemistry of this trio is apparent and with the well polished and minutely rehearsed routines this is a delight to watch, like a human perpetual motion machine each action triggers the next and the narrative rolls full steam ahead through imaginary landscapes that are vividly recreated.
From simple mime and physical theatre jokes, Rendered Retina grab and run with a passion. From well-known ideas, like a moment of descending imaginary stairs these boys take it to the max giving us descending escalators, travelators, slides and a crescendo of slick and fast choreographed daftness that produced serous mirthful laughter.
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They explore big themes and the action leads us from a silly playful day-dream out into darker world of adventure, storms, discovery, imprisonment and ultimate resolution. They pull lovely moments out of the endless kinetic motion of their faces and paper props, an impressive tragic moment or two, the suggestion of real peril and a real sense of struggle both for friendship, control and ultimately meaning.
Tom Mangan, Alex Mangan and Jordan Choi: who are the trio behind Rendered Retina are easy on the eye, with goofy, grunting, gurning engaging expressions to elicit laughter in this wordless production, there’s plenty of other noise as they wrestle, sometimes literally with each other. The audience adored them and left with huge smiles on their faces.
Well done Rendered Retina on giving us an original idea done with style and energy, in a sometimes same samey festival and performance world it’s like a breath of fresh comedic air.
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