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THEN, JEUX! Adam appears wearing tennis shorts, T-shirt and trainers. His partners were..... WHOW! Oxena Panchenko (Ballet Boyz wondergirl) and Layla Harrison, whom I'd not heard of before. Adam, I'm glad to say, still retains his classical training and great partnering. There were a lot of Nijinsky-like movements using those great Cooper arms. After flirting with the two girls and being forced to choose between them he suddenly STRIPS OFF HIS T-SHIRT!!! and darts off the stage. One could hear the gasp in the audience and a palpable rise of temperature in the auditorium. After a lot of jealous exchanges between the girls, one of them, after bringing on a tray of drinks, spikes one with something and offers it to the other girl, who rejects it. (Well you can guess what is going to happen - maybe). Adam comes back dressed in cream trousers and a sage-coloured sweater. Dances with both, torn in doubt as to which one to choose. One of them runs off stage and there is a loud bang which implies that she has shot herself. Cue for Adam to do the breast-beating, wiping-of-forehead stuff. But, no, she bounces back demurely on stage. Anyway, enough of all that, I won't tell you what the ending is because this piece (re-arranged by Ken Burke (ex Acting Director of SB and a good friend of Adam) deserves another show (maybe at Exeter?)." |
| "Jeux" Darrell Gala, Glasgow, Scotland April, 2003 Review by Ann Welsh |