Tag Archives: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015

Ontroerend Goed - A Game of You

Ontroerend Goed: A Game of You

August 29th, 2015 by

To be honest I don’t quite know how to write about A Game of You without giving said game away. And that would utterly spoil the experience for you… but I can share a flavour of this craftily brilliant piece of work. The experience is the third in the company’s acclaimed series of works that […]

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Tim Spooner The Assembly of Animals. Photo Paul Blakemore

Tim Spooner: The Assembly of Animals

August 29th, 2015 by

It’s like a 3D dogugaeshi as the red curtains slide back, revealing more and more in the depth of the space. But in place of painted Japanese screens, we get a ’performed sculpture’; an assemblage of animated objects and automata whizzing and whirring on little tables. It starts with a sheep – a funny little […]

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Light, Ladd and Emberton - Caitlin - Photo by Warren Orchard

Light, Ladd and Emberton: Caitlin

August 28th, 2015 by

They give us the money shot early. Caitlin curled around Dylan’s head like a Welsh blanket. Is she suffocating him or shielding him from something? From himself perhaps, or more likely, from her. For while Dylan Thomas was a notorious boozer and womaniser, it is Caitlin’s wilder and less predictable spirit that we are here […]

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Caroline Horton - Islands

Caroline Horton & Co: Islands

August 28th, 2015 by

Oh Mary, oh Eve, what alarming, degrading, furious role models you are for womankind. Ruling your shitty, filthy world, with your lack of morals and shifting affiliations, with your disorganised bodies, shallow greed and steel hearts. Who should I follow and what should I believe? Caroline Horton’s ensemble show, which premiered in January, set the […]

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Caroline Bowditch - Falling in Love with Frida

Caroline Bowditch: Falling in Love with Frida

August 28th, 2015 by

This is the second production inspired by Frida Kahlo that I’ve seen this summer. The first, The Four Fridas, was an enormous spectacle put together by Greenwich & Docklands International Festival’s Bradley Hemmings. It included a mesmerising and moving flight of the Voladores. Caroline Bowditch’s piece is the opposite in scale – intimate and friendly […]

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