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Praise for Punch...​
"The action is high intensity, rapid, swaggering, with Adam Penford’s direction and Leanne Pinder’s stylised movement creating a restless sensibility as Jacob charges up and down Anna Fleischle’s bleak set with its concrete underpass and runways with metal rails running up to a bridge at the top."
​​What's On Stage​
“…Coupled with movement director Leanne Pinder’s dance sequences and parkour-like leaps, there are moments of pure dynamism.”
​What's On Stage​​
“…The power of the storytelling is greatly enhanced by the use of some thought-provoking movement. Leanne Pinder has produced a piece which is easy on the eye.”
"Leanne Pinder's fluid movement direction envelops the audience with all the different energies on stage; from pulsating nightclubs, to the stark stillness of the room where the grieving parents sit."
"It is a picture of young men whose lives were banal and going nowhere who generated their
own excitement by fighting, while Penford’s production generates its own excitement with its
physicality and stylised movement directed by Leanne Pinder."
"Leanne Pinder’s movement direction captures the initial, dizzying frenzy which consumed the drug-fuelled Jacob on that fateful night, as the ensemble dash around the scaffolding and
industrial set design from Anna Fleischle."
"...with stylised movement choreography from the ensemble to create the relentless Saturday
night activity. This movement is contrasted beautifully with the heartbreaking stillness of Joan
(Julie Hesmondhalgh) and David (Tony Hirst), who are processing how to proceed with the
irrevocable loss of their son."
"The performers often work as an ensemble with movement direction by Leanne Pinder, injecting further energy in its visuals."
Praise for Disruption...
​"...movement director Leanne Pinder has created exquisitely choreographed sequences to
allow for set changes and shifts in time. Characters adjust furniture and props as they chat on
their way to new starting points, as if we are seeing a timelapse of the rest of the evening..."
"Robbie Butler’s lighting design, Asaf Zohar’s composition and sound design and Leanne
Pinder’s movement create these moments that appear to be a halfway point between
naturalism and stylisation."
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