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Ultima Thule - Gomaar Trilogy - Photo Maaike Buys

Ultima Thule: Gomaar Trilogy – Head Over Heels

August 9th, 2015 by

This production, part of the curated Big in Belgium programme, is dominated by the physical energy and storytelling skills of the three performers onstage who stand on, move around, and hide behind wooden pallets recounting the story of a small town and particularly of a mother and child, her husband and the child’s father. The […]

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UCLU Runaground - Jabberwocky

UCLU Runaground: The Jabberwocky

August 9th, 2015 by

Caspar Mark Cech-Lucas and Laurence Young’s version of the classic poem takes as its premise a boy whose mother is ill and so takes a journey of the imagination into the world of the Jabberwocky to deal with his separation anxiety and fears of losing his mother. The cast of seven use a variety of […]

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The Park

Puppet Beings Theatre: The Park & The Paper Play

August 9th, 2015 by

The Park is a tabletop puppetry performance presented by Puppet Beings Theatre which is beguiling and charming. Five puppeteers in costumes that are all black yet professionally designed manipulate 18-inch fully-articulated rod puppets to present a scene of an old man in a park and his encounters with a dog and children. The only set […]

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Show and Tell: Puddles Pity Party

August 8th, 2015 by

Puddles is dressed as a Pierrot with the white silken costume, the delicately painted face and white bald head topped with a tiny golden crown decorated with a red letter P. This is where the associations with the sad clown end, as Puddles, who uses his body and face to great effect, proceeds to perform a […]

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Charlie Tuesday Gates: Sing For Your Life

August 8th, 2015 by

This show has a classic Edinburgh Fringe attention-grabbing premise: a musical where the characters are made from dead animals. Described as roadkill meets X-Factor, this four-performer, two-musician show takes the classic musical theatre plot (a bunch of performers want to put on a show as we watch the impresario corral the talent and deal with […]

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