In this four-hour durational performance, Etchells and Orazbayeva perform simultaneously. Staged in a side room off the main space at the Drill Hall in a long thin space, Seeping Through placed the audience along one long side with the performers along the other long side. This made it difficult to enter or leave the space […]
Tag Archives: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015
Forced Entertainment: Quizoola!
August 29th, 2015 by Adam BennettSurrounded by a string of lights on the floor, two performers with white painted faces and the red mouths and black eye details of clowns take turns reading out to one another a list of questions in this durational piece. ‘Would you like to stop?’ is the key to this game, to which an answer […]
Robbie Synge: Douglas
August 29th, 2015 by Terry O'DonovanA lone man balances atop a cylindrical tube of rolled up dance floor 5ft high. He needs to concentrate – the task is ruling him. He tips forward and leaps to the ground, the tube crashing behind him. The man assesses the situation and continues to set up another balancing act. Douglas is a musing […]
Fishamble: Underneath
August 29th, 2015 by Terry O'Donovan‘You never know what’s around the corner’ – this is the warning and lament that begins this tale of human pain from Ireland’s new writing company Fishamble. We’re in a dark underworld of black and gold. A slinky, androgynous body wrapped in dark, weed-like foliage slinks across the stage, his bright white eyes glinting out […]
Sound Production: The Garden
August 29th, 2015 by Michael BeggIt doesn’t get much more intimate than this. A small, informally constructed kitchen set, cast in an otherwise anonymous working space. A small audience squeezed tightly into two rows of benches. In the shadows behind the bench, composer John Harris, armed with a laptop and a DX7, stirs the air and subtly increases the tension […]