You Animal, You review – Force Majeure's new work a gladiatorial dance contest with no clear objective

Carriageworks, Sydney
World premiere at Sydney festival contains moments of startling beauty but lacks purposeTowards the end of You Animal, You, we witness what seems to be a messy, soiled birth. A washed up matriarch, played by Heather Mitchell, delivers a monologue in which she compares the delivery of her son to drowning on waves. As she does, a male dancer flips and turns inside a giant inflatable plastic bag. Eventually, he tears it open and slides out – naked as a newborn – in