André & Dorine, by Basque company Kulunka Theatre, was a mask theatre performance with an impressive set design – an offering that appeared gleamingly polished among BE Festival’s mixed programme of work-in-progress and finished pieces. The full-face masks were very impressive and endearing, depicting an elderly couple with caricature large heads. An old man sat […]
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Laura Mugridge: Running On Air
July 4th, 2011 by Terry O'DonovanComedian Laura Mugridge, in collaboration with Tom Frankland, has created a tiny gem of a show with her ‘solo’ performance Running On Air. It’s not entirely a solo performance – her yellow VW campervan, called Joany, in which the show takes place is a character herself. And the audience, which is limited to five at a […]
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Pierre Sauvageot: Harmonic Fields
June 5th, 2011 by Edward TaylorYou wait for a coach outside the Lanternhouse in Ulverston, which takes you twenty minutes out of the town and onto the hills overlooking Morecambe Bay – quite a spectacular place and a view to die for. The hills overlook Windscale so it’s a view you quite possibly could die for. Here you discover Harmonic Fields – a huge […]
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Michael Pinchbeck: The End
May 26th, 2011 by Beccy SmithThe End is a palindrome performance – it loops around itself, like a bear circuiting a stage, in the process, by some writerly slight of hand, enacting the complete role reversal of its two performers. It’s structure is obsessed by parallels – nothing appears onstage without its twin – and reversals. We watch the characters of […]