Flare festival review " music, energy, spirit and stage blood
Contact theatre, ManchesterFrom a pea-eating contest with cocktail sticks to a Bacchic ritual of desire and violence, this inventive, physical triple bill was enjoyably tough to categoriseEven individually, each of the three pieces in the first of this week's Flare festival triple bills might best be described as "defies categorisation". Taken en masse, that sense of taxonomical panic only intensifies. Hannah Sulliva…