Writings

Flip Fabrique: Attrape Moi

August 17th, 2016 by

Catch em if you can! All the way from Quebec – although in this case, Quebec City rather than Montreal – come Flip Fabrique, with a feel-good street-wise circus show that gets down with the kids. There’s a bunch of friends reunited,  there’s beat-boxing, there’s trampolining, there’s big red bouncy balls, there’s chalking on walls., […]

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Circa: Closer

August 17th, 2016 by

Four chairs, four performers – two male, two female. A rope, a tying-up game – which turns into a powerful corde lisse routine by Lauren Hurley (who was first seen seen and admired by Total Theatre in previous show What Will Have Been). The frenetic soundtrack breaks into a cheesy Cha Cha and all four […]

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Manual Cinema: Ada/Ava

August 17th, 2016 by

Ada and Ava are twin sisters. We first meet them in their home as elderly ladies, taking tea as the clock tick-tocks. But are they both really here? Where does one self end and another begin? It transpires that Ava is dead and Ada is holding tight to her memory. The mourning is a painful […]

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Sita Pieraccini/Feral: Bird

August 17th, 2016 by

So it seems it is a solo, but soon you realise that it is a duet. While she conjures up many different environments on the stage (a shelter, a hole, a sand desert, a burnt forest), he makes music and sound with his hands, mouth, tongue and even with his feet. The sound of dried […]

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Nina Conti: In Your Face

August 16th, 2016 by

Coming to this sell-out show completely fresh, my prior knowledge was limited to an understanding of Nina Conti as an established performer with considerable popularity, judging both by my research and the packed house of excitedly expectant audience members on the night that I attended. Bar knowing that Conti is an extremely accomplished ventriloquist, having […]

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