Reviewed by: Missmanda Media
Direct from its highly praised Sydney season, the lavish spectacle that is La Ronde doesn’t beckon for your attention, it commands your surrender. It’s tight, it’s up close, it’s personal. It’s not just athleticism performed on a circular stage. It is a deliberate, sizzling seduction, engaging you from the start with a dazzling mix of raunchy precision and hard and fast artistry. The international cast, true icons of glamour, perform in an atmosphere thick with decadence and intrigue, captivating audiences with deliciously improper moments of wicked abandon, they are deliciously improper.
Conceived from the audacious minds behind Blanc de Blanc and LIMBO, their latest creation is a mix of live music, breathtaking acrobatics, dazzling feats and raw humour leaves you feeling you may have dared to taste something forbidden and found you rather like the flavour.
As the final notes fade and the haze of opulence settles, you emerge breathless, heart racing, with a wicked grin on your lips a secret shared between you and the shadows of La Ronde. The taste of risk lingers, delicious and unapologetic, daring you to crave more. This is not just theatre, it is a sultry rendezvous with the extraordinary, an adrenaline-soaked flirtation that stains your memory long after the last curtain call.
La Ronde is a decadent temptation that boldly blurs the line between pleasure and art, leaving you with a delicious hint of wickedness, and absolutely satisfied.
La Ronde dominates at the Spiegeltent at The Garden of Unearthly Delights until Sunday 22 March.