Fascinating, and nerve-wracking: Cycle pedals a provocation. A review

Andrew Ritchie in Cycle, Thou Art Here Theatre. Photo by Mat Simpson.

Source: 12thnight.ca

Author of the Article: Liz Nicholls

December 13, 2024

There is something valiant, energizing, and scary as hell, about the show that’s currently spinning its wheels faster and faster at Mile Zero Dance.

The man we meet in Cycle does something we all know how to do. He rides a bicycle. But here’s the thing:  Andrew Ritchie, the intrepid creator and star of this Thou Art Here Theatre production, rides his bicycle everywhere, in every season, to work, on holiday, in cities, on mountain tops in Bolivia, in theatres.…

And in this fascinating and nerve-wracking solo show — part-memoir, part-documentary, part activist drama on wheels — in a city where ‘bike lane’ is a conversational gambit that could singe your eyebrows, the cyclist stakes a claim. A claim for safe urban space.