BLAM! is set in a mundane office where four employees are as bored with their tedious lives as anyone in their shoes would be. That is where anything usual or tedious about this Danish production, returning to the fringe after a sell-out run in 2013, ends. At first, hints of creativity and playfulness from the […]
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Formosa Circus Arts: Self and Others
August 21st, 2015 by Ezra LeBankSelf and Others by Formosa Circus Arts, and part of the Taiwan Season at Fringe, presents a blend of circus, theatre, and dance. The company works unusually for a circus, preferring to focus on group dynamics, dance, and texture, instead of individual virtuosity. Each performer wears the same minimal costume in rather consistently dim lighting […]
Breach Theatre: The Beanfield
August 21st, 2015 by Adam BennettThis piece, squeezed into a corner of a tiny space on the Royal Mile with six chairs, a projection screen and a square of green fake grass taped to the floor, begins straightforwardly, with six young men and women reading out the communications between them in their preparations for the play. Their ambition is to […]
The Pinocchio Theatre in Lodz: The Metaphysical Caravan
August 21st, 2015 by Adam BennettI heard the drive from Poland to Scotland was quite eventful, and the group on the morning of their first performance were tired and stressed, and the equipment had suffered from rain damage. After waiting until they’d settled I managed to see two of the three pieces they were presenting at the Fringe before heading […]
Studio Matejka: Awkward Happiness
August 20th, 2015 by Matt RudkinAwkward Happiness is a contemporary dance-theatre piece performed by an attractive young cast of four, featuring singing, acting, contemporary dancing, live musical accompaniment, and video projection. As we enter a lithe young lady is sat on a table, swinging her legs, swigging wine and throwing sly smiles in our direction. As the show begins she […]