“The entire work is clearly stamped with Duke’s innovative and holistic approach to performance particularly in the way he collides the mundane with the magnificent. The judicious musical choices, the seamless technical wizadry, the audacious cocktail of groundling humour, bathos and sudden skull-freezing drama plus the raw energy of the dancers…an impressionistic work of steadily accumulating power…”

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“The passages of dance, however, which punctuate the piece between spoken scenes, are the exact opposite of this emotional restriction – whereas their words conceal, their bodies reveal. Lost Dog – led by choreographer Ben Duke – have a physical language that sits somewhere between total balletic gracefulness and the movements happening in an indie sleaze mosh pit. When not falling poetically into each other’s arms, the dancers ricochet and shake like teenagers having an existential crisis in the dark.” ****

“Ben Duke directs a triumphant theatre-dance interpretation of the Dickens classic that offsets complexity with out-loud laughs” ****