Who Are We? – Southbank Centre
Baro d’evel’s Who Are We? is a uniquely multidisciplinary spectacle, combining dance, music, acrobatics, ceramics, and clowning to bring a modern-day circus to the iconic Southbank Centre.
Rather than a distinct plot, the show comprises individual moments loosely tied together by overarching themes such as identity, fear, and hope. Through movement, sound, and the clever manipulation of clay, Baro d’evel connects with the audience without many words – and much of the script isn’t in English anyway.
The action on stage interacts with Lluc Castells’s fluid and earthy set design to also draw on the connection between humanity and the natural world, as well as the devastating damage we’re doing to it. I found the moments in which this connection was emphasised to be particularly emotiona...