Watching the wonderful show ‘Soap’ being performed at the Sydney Opera House one couldn’t but help ask the question, why hadn’t anyone thought of devising a dance piece around bathtime before? There’s just something so refreshing and meditative about luxuriating in a large claw bath…

Markus Pabst has struck gold devising this great late night show. Eight great performers dance and cavort around a series of bathtubs whilst diva, Lithuanian opera singer Lina Navakaite, sings in the shower. Deft, poignant set pieces were the evening’s highlight. In one scene a young woman is in a bath receiving present after present we assume from an admirer only to find out, in the end, that she is giving the presents to herself.

This marvelously entertaining show, co-directed by Maximilian Rambaek, and combining circus, comedy, cabaret and even juggling, plays the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House until Saturday 23rd January, 2011.