The Passion of Andrea 2 review – Pythonesque dancefloor caper

The Place, London
Three performers have knockabout fun in choreographer Simone Mousset’s well-crafted, supremely silly show

It’s funny, this show. Maybe not from the off, when you’re just wondering what on earth’s going on, but the performers – three of them, all playing characters called Andrea – have a way of gradually winning you over, mainly with silliness and a sense of us all being in cahoots. Their somewhat gormless appearance helps: moustaches and curly wigs raise a smile.

The show’s creator, Simone Mousset, is a young Luxembourger choreographer who trained in London. She currently works between the UK, France and Luxembourg, where she is picking up interest in her hard-to-pin-down brand of dance theatre. The Passion of Andrea 2 (an imagined sequel, don’t worry about the backstory) is devised with three very likable performers, Lewys Holt, A de la Fe and Bryn Thomas, who quickly turn from genial to competitive to homicidal, short-circuiting at the first sign of unease or any perceived slight and rebooting to start all over again.

At Assembly @ Dance Base, Edinburgh, 13-25 August