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Author / Grace Lowry
19/10/2018

A QUIET EVENING OF DANCE

The huge scope of the State Theatre is a curious setting for such an anti-theatrical event as A Quiet Evening Of Dance. Black vinyl floor, white wash lights, dancers in ‘civvies’ and, to begin with, no music at all. The silence is refreshing and reminds one to be less damning of the coughers and rustlers,…
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12/10/2018

100 KEYBOARDS

Newport’s Substation proves yet again to be a sublime venue for taking in art-works by providing the vaulted space for ASUNA’s sonic circle experience. The lights are warm and plush carpets are laid a short distance from an expanding circle of toy keyboards. There is a spot for everyone, and it feels as though the…
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05/10/2018

LEXICON

Circus began as very specific entertainment. 250 years later, the genre has been taken apart, stripped and stretched to the edge, and will undoubtedly keep moving as society dictates. NoFit State Circus was born of political distress under Thatcher in Wales and has been a leading innovator in today’s contemporary circus since. Contemporary circus is…
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01/10/2018

ELMO

Fringe this year has opted for a rating system describing where each show fits in the “comfort zone.” An interesting concept, though perhaps there is one generic comfort zone, and we all know when we are out of it… Elmo advertises as “Pushing the Comfort Zone”, and it’s not in the way you would expect.…
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01/10/2018

THERE / HERE

Two actors re-performing a show from ten years ago, in the same room, under the same direction, is enough to excite interest. Marcel Dorney, Emily Tomlins and Angus Grant reunite to breathe life into a little show with extreme depth. This is meta theatre: yes, we know. They know that we know, we all know…
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28/09/2018

CHURCH OF OYSTER

Performer poet Caramelsauce Mel cordially welcomes the audience into a tactile tour of the space, we feel the latex and the drum: a gentle warm-up to a show that is quite a ride. The Church of Oyster experience sits somewhere between live art and drag variety because it doesn’t quite achieve a theatrical thru-line. Yet,…
PERFORMANCE
28/09/2018

WRITE LOUD & CLEAR ABOUT WHAT HURTS

50 minutes is the therapist’s hour and also the run time of most fringe shows. This allows the therapist to take notes before the next client, the punters to run for a drink before the next show, and for performers to scrabble with rapid bump ins and outs. This show boldly places a ticking clock…
PERFORMANCE
24/09/2018

CASTING OFF

A Good Catch have returned to the Melba Spiegeltent, where this piece had its debut almost a year ago. Casting Off has all the polish of a well run-in show with the presence and humour of a freshly improvised farce. The audience are completely charmed before the tricks even begin; there is generosity and casual…
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