A thrashing punk riff heralds the start of Wendy Houston’s latest work, a tribute to former collaborator and friend Nigel Charnock who died last year. As the music thrums she bolts onto the stage, running in circles before disappearing again. And so begins a show that, although constructed from futile acts and asinine platitudes, resonates […]

Entering the small black box stage of the Marlborough Theatre the audience encounters a drag artist, standing on a plinth, singing Gloria Gaynor’s I will Survive with his back turned to the audience. Then, as he undresses, we see a man wearing a black vest and underpants. His face is covered with white cloth that […]

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 […]