Tag Archives: Edinburgh Fringe 2014

Christeene: The Christeene Machine

August 12th, 2014 by

Though I am not the target audience for this, I soon became it, tuned into a youthful frenzied display of the almost indescribable. The Christeene Machine, marketed as ‘a gender-blending booty-pounding perversion of punk dragged through a musical theatre gutter’ is a journey into a liminal space that is abject and transforming. I want to talk about […]

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Juncture Theatre - A Little Nonsense - Photo Kitty Wheeler Shaw

Juncture Theatre: A Little Nonsense

August 12th, 2014 by

The first moments of this show present the audience with a simple set up: straight man and fall guy. The fall guy looks like a clown, with a white face and red nose. The straight man is being serious at a typewriter. The company wants to explore the Manichean struggle between mirth and melancholy using […]

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Barrel Organ: Nothing

August 12th, 2014 by

There is nothing more satisfying in theatre than a number of recognisable traditions filtering through and cohering into a completely fresh and new artistic sensibility. Discernible influences on the young company Barrel Organ include Forced Entertainment, Sarah Kane and possibly some representatives of the current trend of interactive theatre pioneered by the likes of Tim […]

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Lyric Hammersmith Secret Theatre Show 5

Lyric Hammersmith Secret Theatre: A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts

August 12th, 2014 by

Secret Theatre – the Lyric Hammersmith’s ensemble project – has gone from strength to strength since its launch in the autumn 2013. They have recently received additional funding which will enable them to continue and in the meantime they have also made it to Edinburgh, with not one, but two shows. The other is a new play by […]

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Anna-Mari Laulumaa: God Is In My Typewriter

August 12th, 2014 by

The Pulitzer prize-winning poet Anne Sexton was abused by her father, unloved by her mother and sexually exploited by her therapist, all of which probably contributed to her depression and ultimate suicide in 1974. This we learn through the unsettling work God Is In My Typewriter. Grim stuff. Performer Anna Mari Laulumaa from Finland presents […]

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