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Gymnast with a flexible approach

By Elisabeth Field

Published: October 11 2008 02:16 | Last updated: October 11 2008 02:16

A lavish spread of salads, chicken, meatballs and a helping of pecan pie are served to the table next to me. Opposite, two large blue-grey eyes gaze longingly at the adjacent feast. “You know, I never think about food...But now I am, constantly, because I can’t have it.”

My lunch partner is actor, director and writer Gísli Örn Gardarsson, an international gymnast turned theatre practitioner, director and crusader against boring theatre. Whether his actors are swimming in water or swinging from trapezes, it’s unlikely that anyone will nod off during one of his shows.

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