MICRO - PRESS REVIEWS
THE BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE Sacha Voit
“it's certainly a fantastic performance, and the music, when they get to it, makes you want to get up and dance”
“some of the humour they create within the piece is both impressive, endearing (which is a word one wouldn't usually associate with a black clad rock band) and joyful”
“The performers make you laugh, smile and thoroughly enjoy their attitude of creative play”
“the intimacy of the piece on The Gate stage really works”
“There's something about these guys that just makes you love their style”
“Go and see it, I guarantee you'll have a good time”
http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/micro-rev.htm
MUSIC OMH
"Micro is an exciting and energetic merging of forms, performed with real wit and skill"
“There’s a nice line in wit running through the piece, which is full of inventive instances of physical comedy.”
“Micro is like a rock gig in which the performers are as likely to play each other as their instruments.”
http://www.musicomh.com/theatre/lon_micro_0410.htm
WHATSONSTAGE.COM Sarah Frater
“Every once in a while, a show comes along that both defies description and leaves you laughing”
“overall Micro leaves you with the warm glow of young Europeans doing their thing.”
http://www.whatsonstage.com/reviews/theatre/london/E8831271160430
/Micro.html
THE TIMES 3 Stars – Donald Hutera
“Pierre Rigal…the talented Frenchman’s experimental production turns a club-style gig by a four-piece rock band on its head”
“Micro is a kind of visual and aural playground that kids around with rock clichés before moving into weirder physical territory”
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage
/theatre/article7096384.ece
POSTCARDS FROM THE GODS/CULTURE WARS Andrew Haydon
“Some of it is very funny and rather charming.”
“an enjoyable aspect of the piece is the simple trainspottery joy of trying to work out what bits of various songs you’re being reminded of. “
“(the music) flits between the cooler end of French pop from the Sixties and the more angular end of post-punk/and early eighties guitar’n’synth – think The Cure or perhaps John Foxx-era Ultravox.”
“this is an exciting step into virgin territory. Well, I’ve never seen it done before, and as genres go, I think it’s one that deserves a good deal more exploration.”
“What the Gate have commissioned is a brilliant idea, irrespective of something so trite as whether you actually *like* it or not.”
http://postcardsgods.blogspot.com/2010/04/micro-preambule-gate.html
http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/theatre_gig/
THE STAGE William McEvoy
“Surprising and uncanny, comedy slapstick routines shift into more conventional music using drums, guitars and vocals to startling effect”
“Frederic Stoll’s superb lighting, sometimes parodying rock gig cliches, adds to the effect.”
“Yet its high voltage performances and sometimes crazily beautiful music leave a striking impression.”
http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/27875/micro
THEATREWORLD Lucy Popescu
“the music is reminiscent of rock greats such as Tom Waits and Pink Floyd.”
“MICRO proves a playful, enjoyable evening that will undoubtedly bring a smile to your face”
LONDON DANCE
“The Gate is an ideal venue choice for the performance, the tiny auditorium looking exactly like an after-hours club in which the kind of indie band to which Rigal’s piece pays playful homage might appear.”
http://www.londondance.com/reviews_details.asp?C=Compagnie+derniere+minute%2FPierre+Rigal&P=Micro&V=The+Gate
TIME OUT 28 Jan - 3 Feb
Dance Critics’ Choice
OTHER REVIEWS
METRO 2 Stars – Keith Watson
THE GUARDIAN 2 Stars – Lyn Gardner
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/apr/14/micro-review
TIME OUT 3 Stars – Sam Marlowe
http://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/event/172574/micro