So, why are some things in the Festival and some in the Fringe? This was asked of me by an interested ‘non-artist’ friend visiting Brighton in the hectic month of May. Once, the answer would have been straightforward: the Brighton Festival is curated, and artists are invited to take part and paid a performance and/or […]
Writings
![Feral Theatre, Triptych](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/triptych.jpg)
Feral flyers, displaced seas and singing lepers – a Brighton Festival and Fringe round-up
July 30th, 2012 by Dorothy Max Prior![Pina Bausch: Agua ¦ Photo: Oliver Look](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/pina-bausch-agua.jpg)
Tanztheater Wuppertal / Pina Bausch: Agua
July 29th, 2012 by Miriam (Mim) KingI first saw Pina Bausch’s Kontakthof in the early 1980s, and, thirty years later, sat in the midst of an excited audience, here I am again to see a restaging of her 2001 work Agua. Spanning completely the rear of the stage there’s luscious verdant green projections of palm tree fronds rippling in sultry breezes. A couple are […]
![Studio Eclipse: Two Sink, Three Float ¦ Photo: Kurt Demey](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/studio-eclipse-two-sink-three-float.jpg)
Studio Eclipse: Two Sink, Three Float
July 27th, 2012 by Edward TaylorA small pontoon stage floats on the water of St. Peter’s Basin in Salford Quays. It has its own window box of reeds. Small floating bundles of red twigs mark out a performing area in the water. The audience looks down on this scene – in the background trams pass by and customers park cars […]
![Tanya Khabarova / Yael Karavan: Somnambules ¦ Photo: Andy Tower](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/somnambules.jpg)
Somnambules & The 7 Deadly Sins
July 26th, 2012 by Dorothy Max PriorA game show that descends from a quest for the glittering prizes to an inhumane and degrading spectacle; some perverse partner dancing that ricochets from a twisted Tango to a slewed Swing; a surreal ballet with a mirror; a manic tug-of-war; a camp-fire tribal striptease; and a dreamy film landscape that suggests an Arcadia elsewhere… […]
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How Things Change: 30 Years of Whalley Range All Stars
July 25th, 2012 by Edward TaylorWe (Sue Auty and Edward Taylor) first met touring with Horse + Bamboo (from Lancashire) and Dogtroep (from Amsterdam) in 1981. The approach and attitude of Dogtroep inflamed our imaginations and we formed the Whalley Range All Stars in 1982 to realise ideas that we couldn’t do elsewhere. We didn’t want to be just like […]