Under the direction of Theatre Re’s Guillaume Pigé, students of Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company have created a high energy piece of physical theatre that is both polished and captivating. Being the only professional production at Edinburgh Fringe this year to feature performers in training, The Woman and the Canvas is a good example of […]
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Theatre Re and Fourth Monkey Training: The Woman and the Canvas
August 7th, 2018 by Ciaran HammondGandini Juggling/ Patfield & Triguero: Gibbon
August 7th, 2018 by Ciaran HammondChris Patfield and Jose Triguero (the choreographers and performers of this show, produced under the auspices of Gandini Juggling) chatter, then they juggle, then they chatter some more, and then they juggle some more – thus goes the structure for Gibbon. When they talk with one another, they do so in a slightly hushed tone, […]
IF you can dream…
August 3rd, 2018 by Lisa WolfeLisa Wolfe goes to Milton Keynes’ International Festival and samples a smorgasbord of theatrical delights from around the world Arriving in Milton Keynes under a burning July sky, it feels like a town that’s been lifted from California and dropped onto the flatlands of Buckinghamshire. The archetypal new-town, Milton Keynes was designed to bring commerce, […]
Dries Verhoeven: Phobiarama
July 28th, 2018 by Zoe Czavda RedoPHOBIARAMA say the blinking circus-tent letters on an otherwise plain black pop-up cube in Granary Square, dwarfed by the much larger, calmer, Waitrose sign, under which one goes to get pre-sliced comfort food. It’s a fitting spatial intervention for Phobiarama, Dutch visual artist Dries Verhoeven’s latest installation-performance to be presented at LIFT; the piece, as […]
Krista Burane & Andy Field: Nocturne
July 28th, 2018 by Zoe Czavda RedoAnimal skulls. An old globe. A bowl of snakeskins. Binoculars. A stuffed hare whose body is stretched out in that unnatural way bodies are hung up before they are roasted, or like a cat waiting to be stroked. A vintage television set. The body of a fox on his hind legs, holding a silver tray […]