Tag Archives: Brighton Fringe 2016

Port in Air - Hardly Still Walking, Not Yet Flying

Port in Air: Hardly Still Walking, Not Yet Flying

May 23rd, 2016 by

Four women want to reach the sublime and they’ll try anything to get there: happy-clappy songs, fractured didactic arguments, and chair balancing. Theirs is both a philosophical journey, taking in Burke and Nietzsche, and a theatrical one, involving every possible performance style and form in its exhaustive quest for the mountain top. They puncture the […]

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The Upstairs Brigade - Birthday in Suburbia

The Upstairs Brigade: Birthday in Suburbia

May 22nd, 2016 by

This show, by young physical theatre collective The Upstairs Brigade, all graduates of the MA in Physical Theatre at St Mary’s University, opens with a group of mysterious black hooded figures performing a dance routine. Then it quickly shifts style into a quirky and comic play set in the suburban home of a middle-aged Polish […]

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ZLS Theatre - Insomnia

ZLS Theatre: Insomnia

May 22nd, 2016 by

There are a host of good intentions behind Insomnia, but not as much in the way of multimedia theatrical innovation as the show’s promotion suggests. Local company ZLS have carefully developed their cast of characters and present sequential snapshots of their respective sleeplessness, cut with video interludes. The show’s premise, setting out to stage the […]

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Human Zoo - The Girl who Fell in Love with the Moon

The Human Zoo: The Girl who Fell in Love with the Moon

May 18th, 2016 by

Five actors in clownish makeup perform energetically in a highly theatrical mixture of exaggerated gestures and over-enunciation. They establish a premise that the troupe is travelling to Brighton to perform their (this) show. They stop off on the way to rehearse to an imaginary audience. This second production from young collaborative company Human Zoo offers […]

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The Rainbow Collectors and Karis Halsall: Hysterical

May 18th, 2016 by

This is a fundamentally conventional play by performance poet Karis Halsall that veers off on surreal departures using puppetry and clown, as two of the characters experience hallucinations. A young woman applying for a job at an advertising agency is assisted in her pitch to sell bottled water by a talking baby doll. Her more […]

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