Is this London's weirdest show? Prepare to enter world of a cow

All performers of Cow/Deer - (Camilla Greenwell)

This singular, wordless theatrical experience uses recorded sound and Foley work – heightened aural effects created by four performers – to take us into the worlds of a deer and a cow, a wild animal and an “industrialised” one. It doesn’t entirely work: and it fails completely in its wider aim to make us ruminate on the climate emergency by seeing life from a non-human-centric perspective. But it is a transporting, transfixing oddity, a beautiful celebration of a finely-honed craft and a testament to the infinite variety of live theatre.

Fingers shred vegetables then scrape through a bag full of gravel (I think) to create the sound of an animal cropping then masticating foliage. Flannels flap to replicate the startled flight of birds. Susurrating polystyrene balls represent scurrying mice. Cow gives birth to a calf with a barrage of recorded snorts and moos and the squelching slap of a wet cloth dropped onto grass. When the human world intrudes – cars, planes, the roar of a combine harvester or the trudge and mumble of an approaching farmer – the skittering Deer and the plodding Cow pause, held and apprehensive.