This show certainly does feature some big marionettes: a virtually life-sized Giraffe, an Elephant, and a Lion. The Elephant is actually slightly under life-size and the Lion slightly over, which caused me some inclination to quibble, but they are big and impressive nonetheless. Indeed, the whole visual aspect of the show is well conceived with […]
Tag Archives: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015
Theatre Klinika Lalek: The Biggest Marionette Circus in the World
August 10th, 2015 by Matt RudkinPaul Lucas Productions: Trans Scripts
August 10th, 2015 by Dorothy Max PriorThe politics of gender – and specifically transgender issues – are a hot potato right now. There’s a lot of media attention on high-profile transgender women – Caitlyn, Kellie – with endless interviews, articles, speculations and pronouncements from the women themselves and from their family, friends and enemies. Meanwhile, within the tight enclaves of radical […]
Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn: Fake It ‘Til You Make IT
August 10th, 2015 by Dorothy Max PriorIn which performance artist Bryony Kimmings is joined by her advertising accounts manager boyfriend Tim Grayburn in the creation of a show exploring his clinical depression, her response to this, and their decision to face it together as they move forward as a couple, now expecting their first child. On one level, there’s not much […]
Blind Summit: Citizen Puppet
August 10th, 2015 by Dorothy Max PriorWelcome to Massiveville, which is in fact a small town populated by puppets. It has a local shop selling overpriced vegetables, a pub, a cottage hospital, and a recreational ground where young people take drugs and make out. Its puppet population includes old codger Howard, whiny middle-class teenager Suki who is like so sick of […]
Victoria Melody: Hair Peace
August 10th, 2015 by Dorothy Max PriorVictoria Melody has been many things: pigeon fancier, Northern Soul dancer, championship dog handler (with her trusty friend Major Tom, subject of her last show). That show weaved together stories of the dog’s bid to win competitions with her own attempts at the beauty queen business – come on down Mrs Brighton! Part of her […]