Since 2008 Les Enfants Terribles have been wowing Edinburgh audiences with their combination of strong physical storytelling, vaudeville styling (episodic storytelling combining ‘turns’, puppetry, wild costumes and song) and new writing from one of the two directors Oliver Lansley, who also stars. The Trench comes to Brighton Fringe hot from a barnstorming Edinburgh run with a clutch […]
Writings
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Victoria Melody: Major Tom
May 11th, 2013 by Dorothy Max PriorIn which Victoria Melody, a 35 year-old performance artist with a winning smile and an interest in anthropology, and her trusty dog Major Tom, a six year-old Basset hound with lovely long ears and an interest in Schmakos dog treats, pursue parallel paths of gruelling competition in their endeavours to become beauty queen / champion […]
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By Moonlight Theatre: The Pardoner’s Tale
May 11th, 2013 by Bill ParslowChaucer’s ‘The Pardoner’s Tale’ is a staple of GCSE and A-Level English; it’s a better bet than ‘The Knight’s Tale’, slightly cleaner than ‘The Wife of Bath’, and has a good strong narrative at its centre. This show is aimed at a school audience, with all the workshop potential (and income – let’s not forget […]
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Clerke and Joy: Volcano
May 10th, 2013 by Lisa WolfeThe length of the space is full of dark brown earth. There are little illuminated cities and towns across the landscape. Stage left stands a pilot. ‘We know he is a pilot because of his uniform’ is a repeated refrain in this story of eruptions and explosions, environmental and emotional. From the muddy mounds emerge […]
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Neil Bartlett: Britten: The Canticles
May 9th, 2013 by Miriam (Mim) KingDirected by Neil Bartlett and staged amid the sombre shadows and silhouettes of Paule Constable’s lighting design, Britten: The Canticles is an intense evening of music visually animated by physical theatre, dance and film. The piece has been devised in collaboration with leading choreographers Scott Graham and Wendy Houstoun, as well as controversial war artist John Keane, […]