Your Majesties throws into a cool blue light Barack Obama’s Nobel Lecture held at the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo in 2009. The work maintains a cool minimalist ambience which allows audiences to consider and interrogate the text. A complex choreography of everyday gestures that flow between the surprising and the mundane illustrate, unpack, […]
Tag Archives: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016


Janis Claxton Dance: POP-UP (fragments of love)
August 9th, 2016 by Marilia EnnesBoth love and dance can pop up unexpectedly from different places at various times. Sometimes just a look, or perhaps a piece of music, can bring them out into the open, either separately or together. Both can be infectious. It’s not uncommon, when we see a couple kissing, to feel the same desire. It’s the […]

Brokentalkers/Junk Ensemble: It Folds
August 9th, 2016 by Dorothy Max PriorIt Folds is a harrowing, heartbreaking and sometimes darkly humorous investigation of death and grief. It is mostly the story of lost children. Children abused or abducted or run over or gone missing, permanently. It is a story told by a (holy) ghost in a sheet with holes for the eyes, and trainers; a dishevelled, […]

FK Alexander: (I Could Go On Singing) Somewhere Over the Rainbow
August 7th, 2016 by Dorothy Max PriorI’ve been sung to by FK Alexander! I waited until she had taken off her black sequinned cabaret singer jacket, and her harness, and her not-silver (as in the original Wizard of Oz book), not-ruby red (as in the Judy Garland film) but sparkly coppery-gold shoes. I stood on the black cross on the floor […]

Derevo: Once
August 7th, 2016 by Dorothy Max PriorOnce. Once upon a time… Once. But in another time, not this time. Another world, not this one. We have entered another world, another time. An ethereal world, outside the boundaries of space and time. (Ether is the substance that angels are made from…) Once upon a time there was… A pair of angels looking […]