It doesn’t take long before delving into a very sacred animalistic reality that seams rhythmic elemental patterns of nature together with collective clumsy extended body parts flailing into dance moves.
The Carpetbag Brigade seems to relish an unusual practice of not only acrobatic dance but stilt walking on all fours. An enlightening kind of physical theatre such as this would not be half its weight if it were not struggling to provide a commentary on humanity and the natural world at work.
Ridiculously large gestures (considering the hall size) within awe-inspiring choreography create a mesmerizing fiction, a little too close to your personal space for comfort. Towards the end, when the stilts have come off the performance continues to provide a larger than life yet absorbing power.
And yet, words are not all too easy to come about when the very concept of the piece could never be accurately put to paper. It has to be seen, as in no other way would you be able to imagine such a rare and far-fetched world. A paradise of stilted alienesque woodland creatures, hesitantly converted to walking by the ways of man.
Despite being bound by Velcro and reams of dirtied costume fabric, the freedom manifested in their inquisitive, playful nature and spirited affinity with each other (as both creatures and a theatre group) create a heavy longing to leave modern society at the door.
Imaginative, enveloping and extremely enjoyable.
4/5 
Celia Philips
