Play of the Week: Feast, Young Vic, London SE1

 

Paul Taylor
Friday 15 February 2013 20:00 GMT
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Exhilarating: Feast is a miraculous melding of music, sinuous dance and ravishingly fluid video projections
Exhilarating: Feast is a miraculous melding of music, sinuous dance and ravishingly fluid video projections (Richard Hubert Smith)

Director Rufus Norris and his team's exhilarating show sees five playwrights from as many countries tell the story of the diaspora of the Yoruba people through a miraculous melding of music, sinuous dance and ravishingly fluid video projections.

The canny structure and the versatile verve of the cast help bind the ingredients into a singular vision of creative persistence and resilient adaptation to change. It begins in Nigeria, 1713, when the journey to a feast of three sisters, part-human, part-"orisha" (Yoruban deity), is interrupted by Atlantic slave traders.

After the trio resurface in the subsequent centuries, the piece climaxes in a flurry of feasts, with a wonderful twist.

(020 7922 2922; youngvic.org) to 23 Feb

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