Adrian Berry samples the circus delights seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 whilst judging the brand-new Total Theatre /Jacksons Lane Award for Circus Theatre. Edinburgh this year was a bit of a double-edged sword for me, so to speak. I was actually planning my first year off in 15 years after a few trips […]
Tag Archives: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014
Little Soldier: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
August 28th, 2014 by Dorothy Max PriorOh what a jolly jape is this! All our favourite Quixote moments are here, delivered with great gusto. Stephen Harper’s height grants a great advantage to a clown interpretation of the battle with the windmills; the lovely lady Dulcinea (who never appears in the original text) here appears flamenco-dancing on demand, every time her name […]
Dead Centre: Lippy
August 18th, 2014 by Dorothy Max PriorLeixlip, County Kildare, Ireland. The year is 2000, the start of a new century – although here is a news story that is almost Medieval. Four women die in a suicide pact. They are 83-year-old Frances Mulhooney and her three nieces, Josephine (46) and the 51-year-old twins Brigid Ruth and Catherine. The women barricade themselves […]
Edinburgh Fringe 2014
August 14th, 2014 by Dorothy Max PriorEdinburgh! So here I am sitting in the courtyard of Summerhall – the Fringe’s hippest and happening-est venue. It has grown even bigger this year – more food and drink franchises, more exhibition spaces, more theatre shows. I’ve just seen The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland (snazzy title!) by previous TT Award winning company Ridiculsmus, […]
Familia de la Noche: The Greatest Liar in All the World
August 14th, 2014 by Dorothy Max PriorIn which Pinocchio, the ‘prince of porkies’, now a middle-aged man in a tired tuxedo and Brylcreemed hair, tells us the truth about his life – if we are ready, willing and able to believe him. And thus the well-known tale is retold by a five-strong team of vaudevillians – four actor-clowns, and a musician […]