Visite – Coronet Theatre
This is the second time I’ve come across the work of physical theatre company Teatro dei Gordi. The first was Pandora, a production set in a public bathroom so funny, strange and precise that I spent months recommending it to people afterwards. I was looking forward to seeing what they would do next. Visite did not disappoint.
Teatro dei Gordi makes theatre that reminds you we speak in many ways. Words are only one of them. There is also movement, rhythm. In Visite, the company turns its attention to time: how it shapes friendships, bodies, habits, and the way joy and grief slowly accumulate inside a life.
Inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the story of Philemon and Baucis, the piece follows a group of friends from young adulthood into old age, tracing decades of shared life with r...