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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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04/10/2018

TRUSTEES

We enter the space, stripped of its usual seating bank; we are instead asked to look inward, at each other, as the space is now set in the round. How this performance begins, is nothing as it ends. The narrative twists and turns between monologue and script, through to all the more personal anecdotes. The…
PERFORMANCE
02/10/2018

COLOSSUS

The Art Centre has never looked so young, the theatre brimming with fresh faced excitement, on stage are 50 dancers, laid out in a circular formation; this is dance of epic proportion. The maker is, of course, Stephanie Lake, an artist who needs no introduction, an individual that, through their electric, white hot choreography, sets…
PERFORMANCE
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.…
PERFORMANCE
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…
PERFORMANCE
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
27/09/2018

LOU WALL’S DRAG RACE

This a a fun, frolicking show, frocked up, fabulous with some serious statements to be made, and it makes these, rather successfully. Using drag, a medium which, for too long, has been dominated by white sic- gendered men that use the medium, ironically – to push misogynistic, exclusionary and often transphobic humour, which in today’s…
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