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, Water must be carefully filtered
By
Fiona Mountford
25 Oct 2007
Anyone convinced that theatre is for the terminally unhip should take a look at all the gizmos they've got onstage in Water.
Its creators, upcoming multimedia collective Filter, believe in letting an audience watch the genesis of aural and visual effects but also, hearteningly, never forget that people pay to be told a story.
In fact, there are so many stories struggling for stage time here that some are in need of water wings.
The basic premise, which director David Farr highlights neatly, is the difficulty we have in connecting with each other.
Various ambitious, busy, technologically savvy young people are shown leading fractured lives to prove the thesis, but over all this, like an acid rain cloud, hangs the awkwardly unintegrated Big Theme of global warming.
This Water should have been filtered more carefully.
• Until 3 Nov (08700 500 511, www.lyric.co.uk).
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