Tag Archives: Forest Fringe

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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Verity Standen: Hug

August 21st, 2014 by

Hug is an incredibly intimate experience, surpassing theatrics and the audience-performer dichotomy with a simple yet powerful device: you are hugged by the person who sings to you. Taking place with roughly 20 audience members and the same number of singers the effect is at once visceral and enveloping, as the combined voices in the room create a […]

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GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN: Number 1, The Plaza

August 12th, 2014 by

Welcome, welcome – come inside, take a look around. Welcome to Number 1, The Plaza. Our house is a very very very nice house. And you’re very, very welcome. Tonight is party night and the door is open. Two young women circle the performance space, dressed in slutty evening wear, one wearing killer heels, one […]

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Tania El Khoury: Maybe if you choreograph me, you will feel better

Tania El Khoury: Maybe if you choreograph me, you will feel better

August 22nd, 2011 by

Maybe if you choreograph me… starts at Forest Fringe cafe. The lone audience member is taken on a walk through the streets. Who is this person leading the way? Is she the artist? Has it started yet, you wonder, looking round at the busy, driven people scurrying by and the slow, dreamy people ambling along. You […]

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non zero one: The Time Out

non zero one: The Time Out

August 17th, 2011 by

Within a small, almost claustrophobic, set-cum-installation of a sports locker-room, twelve members of the audience are seated in the round on three small benches. We are told that we are facing a big challenge…. We are introduced to our swimming coach and told why we are here: for a water-polo game, which in just minutes […]

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