YOUR GUIDE TO EDINBURGH'S FESTIVALS
This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
ED2019 4/5 Reviews ED2019 Theatre Reviews
The De Nova Super (A Brilliant Everything)
By Will Norris | Published on Sunday 11 August 2019
With its retro-futurist aesthetic, ‘The De Nova Super’ literally exudes atmosphere. This is partly due to the most haze I have ever seen used in a show, but also to the commitment to the world created. With home-made props and costumes, it would be easy to dismiss the show as gimmicky, but there were times when I genuinely felt transported into space, rather than sitting in a metal container. Darkly surreal, this show manages to be a philosophical discussion on the nature of existence without a word being spoken, relying on dance, physicality and comic timing to make its point. With the planet’s future uncertain, we are asked if we are really ready to face not just the consequences, but our own demons.
Assembly George Square, until 26 Aug.
tw rating 4/5 | [Will Norris]
