The main drag in Great Yarmouth on a Saturday night. There are gaggles of teenagers, dressed in a supermarket of styles: a bit of Mod here, a bit of Punk there. Lots of Adidas, too. There are families with tots in buggies, some clutching bags of crisps or lollipops, and there are kids sitting on […]
Writings

Generik Vapeur/Gorilla Circus: Thank You for Having Us (Merci de Votre Accueil)
September 19th, 2019 by Dorothy Max Prior
Permission Pending
September 11th, 2019 by Horta MoretonNowadays, Outdoor Arts are taken seriously as an artform – funded and programmed within festivals, with risk assessments and audience evaluations to the fore. Which is all well and good – but what happened to the anarchic immediacy of traditional Street Theatre? Oh hang on – it does still happen! Horta Moreton reports on the […]

Riverside Flights and Fancies: SIRF 2019
September 10th, 2019 by Dorothy Max PriorStockton International Riverside Festival 2019 struck me as a festival in two parts. During the day and into early evening, the high street is a ringing, singing carnival of overlapping shows – static, circle, promenade. All very different propositions: from traditional street theatre, to tea dances, to acrobatics, to anarchic audience interactions… Edward Taylor paints […]

SIRF City Takeover
September 6th, 2019 by Edward TaylorEdward Taylor takes a psychedelic trip to the Stockton International Riverside Festival to encounter, amongst other delights, rainbow-coloured cars pegged out to dry, and sci-fi globules that sing sad tunes when taken the wrong way Stockton-on-Tees is a most unlikely venue for a major international street theatre festival – but the event has been running […]

Jennifer Irons: Yukon Ho! (Tall Tales from the Great White North)
September 3rd, 2019 by Katherina RadevaA woman laden with a giant rucksack enters the space. Her movement is slow, careful, as if she is walking through a snowstorm. She is wearing a giant coat with a large hood, her boots look warm and the rucksack on her back feels heavy. She waves a flag! She plants it on the ground […]