Billing itself as ‘three short stories narrated through contemporary circus and aerial dance’ Uncharted Waters takes a general theme of the nautical and seafaring. There are (as it says on the can) three pieces presented, these linked, or interspersed perhaps a better way to put it, by live song of a sea shanty nature sung by Dave […]
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![All or Nothing / Strange Bird Zirkus: Uncharted Waters](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/all-or-nothing-uncharted-waters.jpg)
All or Nothing / Strange Bird Zirkus: Uncharted Waters
August 20th, 2011 by Dorothy Max Prior![Ray Lee: Ethometric Museum](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ethometric-museum.jpg)
Ray Lee: Ethometric Museum
August 19th, 2011 by Lisa WolfeSix people, wearing hard hats and treading carefully, are led into the basement of the Hill Street Masonic Lodge. Dr Kounadea, in a neat tweed skirt suit and sensible shoes, explains that we are about to enter some ancient tunnels, wherein was found the Radiometric Analyser Mark 4. There are concentric circles etched into the […]
![Siro-A: Technodelic Comedy Show ¦ Photo: Midori Tsunoda](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/siro-a-technodelic.jpg)
Siro-A: Technodelic Comedy Show
August 19th, 2011 by Dorothy Max PriorSo, who remembers Yellow Magic Orchestra? They heralded the 1980s with their spectacular mix of electronic pop music, Kraftwerk-esque ‘showroom dummy’ performance, cutting-edge animation, and live computer-gaming references. Siro-A are like the wayward children of YMO: 30 years on, the technology has advanced, but the aesthetic is similar – yet this time the ante is upped […]
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dANTE OR dIE: La Fille à la Mode
August 19th, 2011 by Gemma BergomiExploring the absurdity of the fashion culture ‘IT girl’, dance-theatre company dANTE OR dIE brought their promenade piece La Fille à la Mode to the National Theatre this weekend as part of Watch This Space festival. La Fille à la Mode begins with a mysterious woman wielding an accordion who begins to play and, like the Pied Piper […]
![Metis Arts: 3rd Ring Out: The Emergency ¦ Photo: Simon Daw](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/metis-third-ring-out.jpg)
Metis Arts: 3rd Ring Out: The Emergency
August 19th, 2011 by Dorothy Max PriorIt’s 2033 and this is the premise: What would happen if Suffolk got flooded, and you – a gathering of twelve random members of the public who, as ‘audience’ for this piece are gathered round a table with buttons to push and plastic policemen to position – you, yes you, had to make the key decisions […]