Vamos is a young company working with an old craft, using full-mask performers, reminiscent of Trestle or Famile Flöz.  In Finding Joy four of them deliver an array of non-speaking characters to tell the story of an elderly woman in the early stages of dementia, the frustrations of both her home life and her grim […]

One static man on the stage, rigid within a warped frame. A loud boosh! The awaiting audience startles to attention. And thus, through a gothic expressionistic style of storytelling, with live music including cello and harmonica, we are led, through black and white tones, into the tale of Gwendoline, who lives by candlelight and cannot […]

Brisbane-based contemporary circus company, Casus, was formed in 2011 by established solo artists Emma Serjeant, Lachlan MacAulay, Jesse Scott and Natano Fa’anana. Their sensational debut collaboration Knee Deep has been performed widely in Australia and around the world, and this is its second visit to the Brighton Fringe. In the atmospheric setting of the Spiegeltent […]

Hardy Animal is a new performance by Bristol-based dance artist Laura Dannequin. Described as ‘A tender solo that looks at chronic pain and human resilience,’ Dannequin takes us on a journey through her experiences of chronic back pain and its effects on her life as a dancer. We begin in the dark as Laura tells […]

Lundahl & Seitl’s Symphony of a Missing Room leads us into an environment where the individual is cherished.  It is our own perception of our world around us that makes this work beautifully unique.  In stark contrast to some larger-scale site-based immersive works, here there is a care, subtlety, and attention to each audience member […]