The Dust Palace has brewed up a volatile concoction with circus acrobatics, contemporary dance and physical theatre shaken into a potent cocktail that is breathtakingly spectacular, sensuously lyrical and often funny.
With Love and Money, the company succeeds in integrating the circus spectacular into a dramatic narrative.
A series of vignettes coalesce into parallel stories about the lives of strippers, and in direct addresses to the audience, the performers frankly discuss the awkwardness of the stripper-client relationship, focusing on how the cash nexus destroys the possibility of genuine intimacy.
Blending physical spectacle into a storyline is not easy, but the synthesis is carried off in an astounding display of precariously balanced chairs and handstands that provides a suitably unstable platform for an interrogation of moral relativism.
