Writings

Abigail Conway: Time Lab

August 16th, 2016 by

This delightful piece by Abigail Conway (one half of the company subject_to_change) isn’t really a show at all. Rather (developing one aspect of subject_to_change’s work) this is a participatory event, though to use the word ‘event’ suggests something grander and more ostentatious than the delicately poised understatement that is Time Lab. Over the course of […]

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Casus: Driftwood

August 14th, 2016 by

Five performers, two female, three male, walk through the audience, down the aisles, making their way onto the small, round stage in the centre of the Spiegeltent. They are dressed in a tasteful palette of maroon, stone, and dove-grey. A red pendant lamp hangs over the performance space and the five group around it – […]

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Lemon Bucket Orkestra: Counting Sheep

August 13th, 2016 by

Please NOTE this performance contains: HAZE, GUNSHOTS & LOUD NOISES, FLASHING LIGHTS, FOOD THAT YOU MIGHT BE ALLERGIC TOO, AUDIENCE MOVEMENT, SHEEP. Well, with a welcoming notice like that, you can’t help but be excited! What will happen? What will happen to us? As it turns out, we are the sheep. Right from the start […]

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Yinka Kuitenbrouwer: One Hundred Homes

August 13th, 2016 by

We are led to a wooden cabin at the rear of Summerhall, a wee building put together lovingly using a quirky assortment of new pine and found wood, like a little fairy-tale house in the woods. We are grateful to get out of the torrential rain. Somewhere to shelter; a temporary home. Yinka has entered […]

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Jamie and Lewis Wardrop: The Dwelling Place

August 13th, 2016 by

In two adjoining rooms in Summerhall’s basement, sounds of the sea intertwine with flickering projections of an abandoned place, given over long ago to the ravages of the wild Scottish weather. Personal possessions are grouped throughout the space, poignant little glimpse of a life once lived. This deeply evocative multimedia performance installation offers an abstract […]

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