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–320°F review – join Cleopatra, Faust and the Pied Piper on a zany odyssey

–320°F review – join Cleopatra, Faust and the Pied Piper on a zany odyssey
Culture | The Guardian

Sadler’s Wells, London Hideki Noda’s spectacular vision of villainous biotech and bone conduction is full of dazzling coups but gets bogged down in its earnest message This wacky futuristic fantasy by Japanese writer-director Hideki Noda aims high. It opens with none other than God observing the Tower of Babel, which creeps up to the heavens in the shape of a skyscraper. Cue an irreverent satirical drama that covers the age of dinosaurs, Cleopatra’s frozen eggs (were they fertilised by Julius Caesar or Mark Antony?) and biotech, all via a plot involving time travel, diseased angels and, well,

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