It Felt Like A Kiss

The Stage“Surrender to it, and you will be utterly terrified...” From being on the outside looking in, we eventually become part of the show itself in what may yet be the most viscerally alarming event I’ve ever experienced live...

Whatsonstage.com“Not yet reviewed”

Guardian“Curtis's film could easily stand alone...” Blends infantile scare tactics, serious politics and visual and aural mystery. When the show is good, it is very, very good: when it is bad, it is excruciating...

The Times“I felt that I had survived quite an ordeal...” I’ve never seen a more ambitious, elaborate example of site-specific work than the show that Punchdrunk has created in a drab office block as part of the Manchester International Festival...

The Independent“Curtis should have been a bit more subtle about it...” Curtis splices together meaning with a simplistic political intent. There's also something unremittingly apocalyptic and relentlessly anti-American about it...

The Telegraph“Revel in a thrill-a-minute visceral excitement...” With Albarn's compositions and period footage edited to violent, perturbing effect by Curtis, you're asked to turn sleuth and nose around eerie interiors. The theatre programme pulls off ingenious feats of audience participation...

Time Out“Not yet reviewed”

Financial Times“Phenomenally well put together, but unsatisfyingly manipulative...” Adam Curtis’s 35-minute montage-based film at the centre of the work is every bit as tendentious and marshalling as it claims the American agenda has been, all the while implicitly pretending that because it consists of archive footage...

this is london“Not yet reviewed”

Remotegoat.co.uk“Not yet reviewed”