Dorothy Max Prior reports on the São Paulo Showcase at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 Stepladders and big steel bins painted yellow and red that are converted into trolley buses, trains and planes; hats sprouting bananas and flower pots; reversible jackets, big shoes, and prosthetic noses… This is classic clowning of the sort that seems […]

As Kamchàtka’s Fugit comes to IF: Milton Keynes International Festival 2025, Dorothy Max Prior speaks to founder member and co-director Gary Shochat about the company’s extraordinary body of site-specific and outdoor theatre work, and the creation of this and other shows I’m on a beach in Great Yarmouth, on the first day of Out There […]

Teenagers: Who’d have them? Who’d work with them? Dorothy Max Prior says yes to both… “Our youth love luxury. They have bad manners and despise authority. They show disrespect for their elders and love to chatter instead of exercise… They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up food and terrorise their teachers.” Oh, those […]

The 2025 Out There International Festival of Outdoor Arts and Circus saw the Festival’s biggest ever programme, spread over four days during the May half-term holiday, and featuring around 50 different companies. Dorothy Max Prior weaves her way through, focusing on the healthy number of female-led circus companies presenting work Oh what a week! Sunshine […]

Lisa Wolfe dives in to Out There International Festival of Outdoor Arts and Circus 2025 – and emerges refreshed… It’s disgraceful. Thirty-five years in the industry and this is my first visit to the mighty Out There Festival. Better late than never. The reasons for making it this year are threefold: I’m producing an outdoor […]