Theatre

Jamie Blake

Alan Hindle | Tuesday 19 April, 2011 15:07

Love, as everybody knows, is an unstoppable avalanche that you can try and hide from in a small cottage on the mountainside, but it will simply smash away your hapless wee house like so many matchsticks and sweep you away, on a thrashing wave of happiness and joy, over a cliff of desire to the bottom of a ravine of contentment and fulfillment. Jamie would rather avoid all that. Good luck! He shouldn’t have gone skiing on the Slope of Life during a Love Avalanche Warning. It’s all going to come crashing down on him faster than this shaky, overextended metaphor. But look at him! Trapped in some kind of mediaeval sewer with two gorgeous woman and a guitar and he’s still miserable. What hope?

Ravenrock Theatre presents Jamie Blake, an all-singing, all-dancing multimedia hoopla featuring beatbox girl Grace Savage and a passionate little cast that, with any luck, will descend every night into hopeless throes of love-making on stage. A musical orgy, that’s what I’m hoping for. All that imagery has got me stirred up.

Jamie Blake runs 22-23 April at the Cockpit Theatre, Gateforth Street, London, 020 7258 2925, ravenrock.org.uk, nearest station, Marylebone.

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