Race Horse Company opens CircusFest 2016 with Super Sunday, a show that is ridiculous and playful while remaining touching in its reverence to circus history. This young Finnish company was founded in 2008 on the premise of creating ‘a completely new kind of contemporary circus’ and they achieve this, somehow, by going back to its […]
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Fye and Foul: Cathedral
April 12th, 2016 by Jo SquiresSet in near-darkness, Cathedral, inspired by a short story by Raymond Carver, uses light and sound to explore our experience of memory, truth, and reality. The darkness is disorienting at first, leaving us in a heightened state of awareness, waiting in earnest for the smallest flicker of light or movement. The performance is built around […]
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TOOT: Focus Group
April 12th, 2016 by Sophie LondonFocus Group is an adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s short story Mister Squishy, and follows protagonist Terry (Terry O’Donovan) as he reaches toward his sense of aggrieved occlusion. We, the audience, have been invited to participate in a focus group, carried out by Terry’s market research company on behalf of a major cake manufacturer (in the […]
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Adrian Sandvaer: Fables for a Boy
April 7th, 2016 by Adam BennettThis performance incorporates theatre, musical theatre and visual theatre in a variety of styles to tell several stories, the main one being a young boy’s challenging coming of age to be a teenager. While his parents are going through an acrimonious split, he finds comfort in the fantasy worlds created by his grandmother, until, that […]
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Kate Darach: Moon Tales
April 7th, 2016 by Miriam (Mim) KingLike a classic old lady from the woods in a fairy tale, wicker basket on arm, headscarf, dark shawl, and in front of a circular projection of twigs brushing a cloudy sky, Lizzie addresses us. She tells us she is ‘old now, of no use but to tell stories’. She lets us in on ancient-sounding […]