Theatre REVIEW: The Wood Paths - ★★★★

Mix Up Theatre (Stewart)
19 hours ago
2 min read

Two logs. Two axes. Two people.

A pause. Silence. Then the splinters fly. A tree cracks under pressure. But the people don’t stop.

What begins as labour becomes something magical, a joyful, ever-spiralling process of making and remaking. A playful, poetic journey through the human urge to create, to bring order to chaos and to turn raw matter into meaning. Wood Paths is a celebration of humanity’s endless creativity and our desire to understand, to shape, and to find beauty in the mess. With humour, rhythm, and wonder, the performance transforms raw wood into a living story, full of sound, silence, symmetry and surprise.

Directed by Andrejs Jarovojs, a master of poetic stage language and deep connection with his audience, each performance becomes a distinctive world with its own rules. Theatre becomes joy, craft becomes poetry, and the ordinary becomes extraordinary.

Theatre on Gertrude Street

Where?

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh - Part of Manipulate Arts Festival

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Archie (Age 13) - ★★★★

"This show had messages about deforestation with the opening of the show being two men cutting big logs in time with axes. The smaller and smaller pieces were then assembled to look like a forest. Clever use of torches made the forest look really eerie with long shadows all around the theatre.

They also cleverly took apart pallets and built them out into different things. There was no dialogue but there was printer on stage printing out messages, and lots of visual story-telling with some very funny moments. It was really different and interesting, and it looked like it was an exhausting show to put on."