The ever creative Momix group once again brings to the Peacock Theatre a stunning visual and creative production entitled Lunar Sea. The performance is an enchanting mixture of illusion, acrobatics, dance and puppetry. All night you’ll be asking yourself how on earth they managed “that”! Whoever thought of combining the stage, UV/black lighting, giant projections, dance and acrobatics was clearly having a moment of brilliance.

What did we see tonight? Well, we saw bodies seemingly flying and soaring through the air, bodies swimming like dolphins, angels, insects giving birth to and then devouring each other, jelly fish, and a flock of gulls going about their business. Plus much much more. Just when you think you’ve figured out the trick behind the act something else happens to make you question what you once thought was a rational deduction. After a while you learn that you might as well just sit back and let the spectacle wash over you. All of this was also accompanied by a pretty cool tribal soundtrack.

The optical illusion stuff is not all there is to the show – the performers themselves are amazing and use the mixture of ballet and acrobatics to great effect. At the end, if you stay for the encore, each performer has their own little solo which gives us a taste of their skills.

Slightly distracting was the screen that sat at the front of the stage, a necessary barrier between us and the performers, upon which was projected such themes as moon scenes, sunflowers, and flowing waters. Half the time I didn’t realise it was even changing but the other half of the time I found it a little intrusive. The only other negative to the show was the lack of true depth in the story – on their own each little piece was interesting but did leave you wondering if there was any sort of central theme being progressed.

Overall a thoroughly enjoyable production that is a quite different from most things you’ll find in the West End.