Dead Club – Poe meets Lynch in a wickedly deviant disco riot

The Place, London
The performers morph from party kids to Victorians to hipsters in Requardt & Rosenberg’s subversive, surreal spectacle of death and the afterlifeChoreographer Frauke Requardt and director David Rosenberg have previously collaborated on works for outdoor spaces, but in Dead Club they move inside, to mastermind one of the most enjoyably baffling productions I’ve seen in ages. A disorienting tangle of riddles around notions of death, memory and perception, the work