Anatomy of Fantasy @ Assembly, George Street

With a heritage that reflects both the precision training of the communist era and the complexities of post-Soviet restructuring, founder and artistic director Evgeny Kozlov has shaped a distinct style, echoing the disorientation of surrealism and the harshness of post-industrial alienation.

Anatomy of Fantasy is a series of iconic, sometimes disturbing images that thread together the body and the subconscious desires that move it: admitting no easy understanding, it draws the audience into an elegant choreography that grapples with the relationship between reality and fantasy, the physical and emotions.

Do Theatre are not led by narrative or message: they work on the emotions, provoking sensations that may or may not resolve into understanding. Surrealism is not merely a nod to a specific genre, but a profound expression of how the heart has reasons that reason knows nothing about. It's easy to roll out the cliches: haunting, visually stunning, emotive. Yet these fail to reach the heart of the experience.

Far from being obscure or specialist, Do Theatre are a gripping response to the vexed questions of existence, a study in the relationship between mind and body, the real and fantasy. [Gareth K Vile]