Dorothy Max Prior is seduced by Brazilian company Cambar Coletivo’s playful invasion of public spaces It is mid-afternoon on a hot summer’s day, and a group of people are taking a walk along the dusty streets of Barao Geraldo, a small town near Campinas in Brazil. Nothing unusual there, perhaps – but the group have an odd […]
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KILN: A Journey Round My Skull
August 7th, 2014 by Beccy SmithCollaborative company KILN, formerly Kindle company from Birmingham, are having a busy Fringe with three shows at Summerhall this festival. A Journey Round My Skull is the newest of these productions, a solo for performer Olivia Winteringham in which she plays a German neurosurgeon discussing the story of her patient. On stage, her consulting room […]
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Curious Directive: Pioneer
August 6th, 2014 by Sarah DaviesCurious Directive’s latest production has much in common with their earlier work After the Rainfall, which struck me as being fragmented, complex and full of big ideas and clever ways of weaving together seemingly disparate narratives. Pioneer indeed contains all of these elements, and in doing so explores perhaps one of the biggest ideas that […]
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Jen McArthur and Kallo Collective: Echolalia
August 6th, 2014 by Sarah DaviesIn Echolalia, solo performer Jen McArthur brings to life the story of Echo, an autistic woman inhabiting a world made tiny by her own hand. Within the walls of her simply furnished little house, she is safe from an outside world that seems to overwhelm her. Inside these restrictive parameters, Echo has created an environment […]
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Theatre Ad Infinitum: Light
August 5th, 2014 by Beccy SmithLight is hard to watch. Literally – it hurts my eyes; I wonder if I will develop a migraine. The show’s language is extreme and astonishing: the stage is in total darkness and every image, setting and character is developed using its own shard of light, from spotlight to strip light and everything in between. […]