Dreamthinkspeak: In the Beginning was the End

The Independent“Ranging in tones from deadpan comedy to soaring elegiac lyricism...” Its mix of live performance, witty absurdist videos and haunting “happenings” has its own imaginative integrity and is sustained with terrific logistical aplomb...

The Observer“The visual jolts are more exciting than the rather approximate argument...” Facetiousness hovers here, unaccompanied by surprise: no one would expect an audience to be greeted by the notion that such a corporation has imagination and heart. Nevertheless, a haunting scene takes place in the complaints room of this company...

The Stage“In the Beginning was the End is never as ambiguous as its title suggests...” For all its dizzying beauty, this is a rather lightweight exploration of our materialistic descent into modern spiritual collapse - and we’ve heard that sermon before...

Guardian“It occupies a strange artistic no man's land...” Time and again, white-coated figures rush about in despair as things blow up in their faces. Some may find all this enlightening. I can only report that I found few clues to the future of the cosmos in this escapist party-game promenade...

The Huffington Post“Brave, bittersweet, bonkers and beautiful...” There are rooms filled with oscillators and old machinery smelling of circuit boards, creepy corridors, a Big Brother style figure, narrative threads that converge and diverge, doors that lead to some of the most wonderful things you will ever see...

Evening Standard“Requires audience members to join a great many dots for themselves...” Sharps could usefully make it sharper at points but it is impossible not to admire such vision and large-scale ambition; our theatrical ecology thrives on innovators such as him...

Financial Times“Quizzical, surreal journey into the world of technology and consumerism...” This surreal, sometimes beautiful Alice in Wonderland journey beneath the architectural splendour of Somerset House encourages you to muse on where we are heading and whether we can pause and ask what progress really means...

The Telegraph“Poignant image of the human race getting perilously out of its depth...” Sharps has a fascination with the ambience of half-abandoned and subterranean spaces and creates such a heightened state of awareness in the onlooker that everything... becomes worth scrutinising...