Published: January 21, 2019
The Man with the Iron Neck delves into the tragic and often taboo topic with sensitivity, warmth and a dose of hyperreal
After losing a young family member to suicide, Josh Bond found himself in the midst of an existential and emotional crisis. Grappling with the unanswerable, he became fascinated with the famous 1920s German acrobat The Great Peters: a stuntman whose signature trick was surviving leaps from a 23 metre platform with a hangman’s noose around his neck.
It’s this preoccupation with defying death that underlies The Man With the Iron Neck, an aerial theatre show. Co-directed by Bond and Gavin Robins in collaboration with NSW physical theatre company Legs on The Wall, it’s one of the hottest tickets at this year’s Sydney festival.
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