Writings

Richard DeDomenici: The Redux Project

Richard DeDomenici: The Redux Project

May 31st, 2015 by

In 2013, live art performer and professional trickster Richard DeDomenici launched  The Redux Project, which he describes as ’my attempt to disrupt the cinema industry by making counterfeit sections of popular films.’ And so here he is at Norwich Arts Centre, presenting a show about the project for this enterprising venue’s [Live] Art Club, as […]

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Circa: What Will Have Been

What Will Have Been (and beyond)

May 31st, 2015 by

A reflection on What Will Have Been, the latest work by Circa to be developed in collaboration with Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and a meeting with the company’s director Yaron Lifschitz The Adnams Spiegeltent, in the last week of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival: word is out, and the tent is full. Circa are perennial […]

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Dance For Me

DFM Company: Dance for Me

May 30th, 2015 by

Sister Sledge’s classic disco track He’s the Greatest Dancer is playing. The Basement main space is packed – sold out for a lunchtime dance show from Iceland! Everyone is relaxed and chatty, including the two performers who are just hanging out in the performance space, casually greeting people as they come in. One is a slim, […]

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Fugitive Theatre: Bolt

Fugitive Theatre: Bolt

May 29th, 2015 by

An empty stage, cool blue lighting. A metal-framed hospital bed, and to each side of the performance space thin muslin curtains – translucent veils that obscure rather than hide. On the back wall, a screen. Bolt opens with moving image. Our point of view is from the ground, and we are looking up into the […]

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Inconvenient Spoof: The Room in the Elephant

Inconvenient Spoof: The Room In The Elephant

May 29th, 2015 by

The team who made last year’s Buddhism: Is It Just For Losers? (whose title was one of the funniest parts) have hit comedy gold this time, with a forty-five minute shake-down of performance that leads you right up the proverbial garden path and straight into the man-shed. It skewers all theatrical tropes and theories about […]

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