Reviews
2023 September to present
The Little Big Things (Sohoplace, London)
“Mark Smith’s astonishing choreography is equally celebratory, fusing muscular contemporary dance with sign language to inventive, theatrically potent effect, and including the wheelchair users in the company with a fluid, entrancing grace.”
- WhatsOnStage
2018 November
The Last Five Years (Wales Millennium Centre)
“Choreographer Mark Smith has successfully created an inclusive show that is never tokenistic. Indeed, the use of BSL and SSE does not merely accompany the narrative – it amplifies it. In this production, signing and singing are not just a letter apart, they are one and the same.”
- Buzz Magazine
2014 May - 2018 August
A Marvellous Year For Plums
“Philip Franks direction kept the play moving seamlessly through the fascinating series of encounters with inspired use of the large stage and technical wizardry at his disposal to create ins and outs and roundabouts. This was all helped by atmospheric lighting from James Whiteside, a musical (Matthew Scott) and choreographic (Mark Smith) time line to help set the scene.”
- Public Reviews
2014 June
Ace of Clubs
“The show’s wonderful choreography, however, is credited to Mark Smith (of Deaf Men Dancing fame, and the opening ceremony of the London Paralympic Games). From the outset, the dancing plays a major role in the production, and is probably the most noteworthy element of the evening.”
- Musical Theatre Review
2012 October
Call Me Madam
Mark Smith’s choreography manages to cram Charleston, foxtrot and even formal ballet into the Union’s tiny space, and despite the egg-shell lightness of the book there’s a catch- it-if-you-can quality to this barely deserving show performed with Busby Berkeley panache in a dripping South London railway arch.”
-Daily Express