Acne Romeo is a thrilling and messy dance-theatre translation of Sam Smith’s frightening new play. Boy and girl meet in a violent world. It’s a collision course. A riot. This has to be a love story.
Thrown together by chance, R and J decide to make a home for themselves. They pass the time undoing sex and want, consumed by pleasure and brute tenderness. As the world bares its teeth around them, they carve themselves into each other for safety. But as day turns to night and knives begin to shine, their star-crossed tumble of need and desire descends into a pit of gendered cruelty.