I AM FALLING - PRESS REVIEWS
EVENING STANDARD - Sarah Frater
“a sensitive miniature”
“a moving story intriguingly told”
“catches the mysteries and bonds of love”
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/show-23379898-details/NatalieAbrahami&CarrieCracknell:IAmFalling/showReview.do?reviewId=23431751
THE GUARDIAN - Lyn Gardner
“This exquisite miniature, a dance theatre collaboration between director Carrie Cracknell and choreographer Anna Williams, unfolds on stage like a film and yet is intensely alive”
“entirely itself in its urge to find a new, expressive language”
“text, motion, lighting and sound often seem to be engaged in their own jostling psychological dance, in which past and present shimmer and merge on a liberating journey into the light”
“theme and intention seep and leak from the stage into the auditorium”
“It is tiny, but quite lovely.”
www.arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/reviews/story/0,,2239660,00.html
THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY - Jenny Gilbert
“I Am Falling tells an absorbing story”
“abstract movement …can …absorb and transmute emotion, giving it pace and propulsion”
“Cracknell, choreographer Anna Williams and dramaturg Jenny Worton have worked hard to find a balance between hard information and soft, facts and unspeakable feelings, the life of the head and the life of the self we can't control”
“Credit to Edward Lewis's sound, and Katharine Williams's lighting, for whisking us from cliff top to suburban semi in only a bare, black box.”
“the clincher is Garance Marneur's design that frames the stage like a cinema screen”
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre/reviews/i-am-falling-the-gate-london-769814.html
THE OBSERVER - Luke Jennings
“a clever age inversion”
“the piece packs a poignant punch”
“it's encouraging to see an important house such as the Gate moving so committedly to incorporate dance into its work”
www.arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/dance/reviews/story/0,,2239879,00.html
THE STAGE - Lyndsey Winship
“I Am Falling hinges on a sliver of a story, but it’s a sliver that pierces and shatters, a single incident that illuminates potency of love, in all its perfect, ecstatic and destructive power”
“The dancers’ bodies are repeatedly thrust together and repelled, intertwined then released, falling and being caught, using their shared momentum to propel each other across the stage and back in a continuous thread of movement - two souls melded into one freewheeling physical being.”
“The skill of the cast is revealed in tiny moments of timing or inflection”
“This is a complex reflection on love and its consequences expressed in the most economic terms, and all the better for it.”
www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/19506/i-am-falling
FINANCIAL TIMES - Ian Shuttleworth
“an astute balance of words and dance”
TIME OUT - Jane Edwardes
“designer Garance Marneur rises to the challenge of the tiny end-on space”
http://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/events/641129/i_am_falling.html