Ockham’s Razor premiered their new work Arc together with Every Action… and the award winning Memento Mori. The London International Mime Festival Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House January Mon 22 [SOLD OUT] – Tues 23 [SOLD OUT] “The moves are physically thrilling, the accompanying fluctuations of mood and relationships succinctly developed.” David Dougill - The Sunday Times “Every Action . . .a little light-hearted classic of constant, feel-good invention” Donald Hutera - The Times Produced by Turtle Key Arts Ockham’s Razor is a critically acclaimed aerial theatre company, specialising in creating physical theatre on new pieces of aerial equipment.   Arc tells the story of three people set adrift in the wide expanse yet claustrophobia of the sea, suspended in the air their raft is too small to support them all - someone has to go. During a crisis the best and the worst of humanity are revealed.   Every Action… is a playful look at the bonds that form when people are thrown together. Four strangers meet before twenty-five metres of rope.   Memento Mori is an award winning powerful duet performed on a suspended metal frame.                   “ Ockham's Razor, appearing as part of the London International Mime Festival, is a young company, founded in 2004 by a group of aerialists who met when studying in Bristol. The name comes from the medieval philosopher William of Ockham: given a choice between two theories, go for the simpler one.   To the sound of the sea, three people lie exhausted on a raft. The raft is a grid, high above the stage of the Linbury Studio Theatre. As the trio wake up and start jockeying for space, their position is precarious. This is the first of three works, which are all dramas. Since the performers are usually balanced somewhere high up, their catches and holds become perilously expressive, and their real vulnerability and strength becomes part of the story. In Arc, the two women, Charlotte Mooney and Tina Koch, wear bright dresses. The one man, Alex Harvey, has an undone evening tie. He's the most despondent of the three, ready to plunge off the raft. Those near-misses are real falls: he drops, caught at the last second by a hooked elbow. The newest of these pieces, Arc is the most striking. The award-winning Momento Mori seems limited by comparison, though this dance-of-death duet is strongly performed. Harvey is implacable, all straight lines, while Mooney winds herself around him. In Every Action..., four people play with a rope pulley. Whenever someone pulls their end of the rope, they send someone else rising or falling. The audience gasp as the performers are pulled off their feet.” Zoe Anderson – The Independent                                      Every Action... Arc                                         Memento Mori