The Information On... DV8: `The Happiest Day of My Life'

What Is It?

Choreographer Lloyd Newson's latest piece for DV8 Physical Theatre boasts remarkable special effects and continues his quest to put meaning back into dance with an exploration of the mating game.

What They Say About It

"The hotchpotch score works well enough, and Bob Bailey's setting proves capable of inexhaustible variation. But did Newson really need to spin out his theme with so much padding?" John Percival, The Independent.

"The special effects are magnificent. There is much, much more... see for yourself what great dance can be," Anne Sacks, Evening Standard.

"I don't believe I have ever seen a more dazzling use of the stage...

I'll have to go back, just to please my eyes a second time," Ismene Brown, The Daily Telegraph.

"Neither sour nor sentimental, nor perhaps as profound as it means to be, The Happiest Day of My Life assumes more personal investment in its sketchy characters than we are actually given a chance to develop. Still, it is an intermittently affecting, visually arresting take on the difficulties of intimacy and the illusory nature of desire," Donald Huters, The Times.

Where You Can See It

The Happiest Day of My Life is at Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank, London SE1 (0171-960 4242) until Sat and then tours to Manchester, Leeds, Coventry, Brighton and Edinburgh