Don’t ask me what the point was. Even though I’m the reviewer and you bestow upon me the power to be your fountain of wise words and deep pontificating. I still don’t have a clue what the point was. I doubt I'm ever likely to know either.

All I can tell you is it’s a show starring lots of tarpaulin, some patio furniture, polystyrene, a big conveyor belt that moves around the room, a swimming pool that moves around the ceiling,  and all the while there’s great music playing in the background. A bunch of crazy, wild-eyed South Americans get the whole thing going, which is no surprise, when I tell you that CPI, the theatre company behind the show, are from Argentina.

Somehow it all comes together to make one of the must ‘wow’-inducing, gravity-defying spectacles of this year’s Festival.

Fuerzabruta means ‘brute force’ (see, I have done some research!). And that’s exactly what this show has. Great punching fists and wild airborne leaps; underwater thrashing and treadmill-dashing hi-octane energy that just pumps and pumps around this huge industrial space and into your veins.

Nowhere, but inside the big Black Tent this Festival, (a space specially created to house this show), will you see such a creative fusion of inspired vision made real by the sorcery of technical invention.

Nowhere, but inside the big Black Tent, will you feel a part of something happy and good and slightly bonkers but have no idea how they did it.

Science and art combine. Fuerzabruta is born. Surrender to its power!

If you have not yet seen this show, then do so. Prepare to be mesmerised and wonderfully disorientated by the scale, beauty and impact of what this theatre company have achieved.

Two word verdict: Argy bargy

Fuerzabruta
The Black Tent @ Ocean terminal
Until 1 Sep

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