Ape's Society
at Augustine's (Venue 152), Edinburgh

James Panton

Apes' Society is an acutely observed and well-performed piece of physical theatre set two million years ago in an animal community, when apes and men were far less distant cousins.

However, given that apes and pre-homo sapiens do not (or did not) do very much of interest in their daily lives, an hour of acutely observed and well-performed physical theatre about a community of apes and pre-homo sapiens is decidedly uninteresting to watch. Perhaps this piece will be of interest to prelingual children, whose level of consciousness and social interaction is on a par with the 'characters' on stage. However, given that prelingual children lack volitional attention, they'd probably be bored rigid after five minutes too. Definitely one to miss. Go see the apes at Edinburgh Zoo instead.