The 2025 Out There International Festival of Outdoor Arts and Circus saw the Festival’s biggest ever programme, spread over four days during the May half-term holiday, and featuring around 50 different companies. Dorothy Max Prior weaves her way through, focusing on the healthy number of female-led circus companies presenting work Oh what a week! Sunshine […]
Writings
Take the Plunge
June 10th, 2025 by Lisa WolfeLisa Wolfe dives in to Out There International Festival of Outdoor Arts and Circus 2025 – and emerges refreshed… It’s disgraceful. Thirty-five years in the industry and this is my first visit to the mighty Out There Festival. Better late than never. The reasons for making it this year are threefold: I’m producing an outdoor […]
Dream On
May 14th, 2025 by Dorothy Max PriorHold on to your hats, we have lift-off. The seventeenth edition of the Out There International Festival of Outdoor Arts and Circus runs 28th to 31st May 2025 – and it is the biggest yet. Dorothy Max Prior previews this year’s bumper edition ‘Out There Festival 2025 is especially significant in terms of international partnership, […]
Never on a Sunday
February 6th, 2025 by Lisa WolfeAt the crossroads of puppetry, dance and theatre, Dimanche is an award-winning co-production by Belgian companies Focus and Chaliwaté. It is set sometime in the near future, when humanity has failed to adapt to the new environmental reality of climate change. Lisa Wolfe witnesses – and wonders: when will we ever learn? It is Sunday […]
Blow Your Trumpets, Angels!
November 20th, 2024 by Dorothy Max PriorThe 60th performance of Truth to Power Café took place on 3 November 2024 in Vancouver Canada, as part of The Chutzpah! Festival: The Lisa Nemetz Festival of International Jewish Performing Arts. It was presented live with a simultaneous live-stream broadcast across the world. Dorothy Max Prior tuned in from afar, and reports here for […]
