Review – The Late Show
With some thirty plus circus shows on offer at this year’s Fringe, it can be a daunting task choosing which to go and see.
Category: Festivals
Review – Heckle!
You’re empowered to be involved. Encouraged to yell, distract, and shout whatever you please to the comedian on stage.
Review – Giovanni!
An earnest and openhearted performance that leaves you tired from laughing yet full to the brim with the feeling you just experienced something rather special.
Review – Simon Keck: Eating Tiger Dicks
One of my closest friends recommended that I should see Simon Keck’s somewhat disturbing comedy show ‘Eating Tiger Dicks’ this Fringe. I don’t know what it says about me, but they were entirely right.
The Producers: A taste of things to come
There’s a buzz in the air amidst the paper lanterns and fairy lights in the beer-garden of The Producers for the venue preview party: the hum of unbridled potential, volatile and heady.
Review – Hamlet and Juliet
Fringe veterans Sound & Fury know what they are doing and clearly love doing it.
Review – ‘6’ and ‘7’
The first six dancers moved across the stage in pulsating darkness to eerie, hypnotic music. The second seven danced in white in utter silence until they began to make noises that were halfway between a mosquito and a Gregorian chant.
Review – Ibsen in One Take
Plays and movies are normally kept apart like peas and carrots. Yet here is Ibsen in One Take, happily breaking all the rules of dinner plate organisation.
Review – Synergy Percussion meets Noreum Machi
This endearing South Korean group gets you involved and hits you with a huge sound that you’d expect from the main stage at Womadelaide.
Review – Koo! Kin Dza Dza
This beautifully rendered Russian animation applies a satirical lens to stratified class systems.
Review – Omar
Omar is a taut and aesthetically stunning film that breaks your heart then smashes you in the face. It’s a tough story to take, but an important one.
Review – Why Don’t You Play In Hell?
In this insane gore-fest, a club of wannabe film-makers band together with an inarticulate loser and a psychotic former child star to film an epic katana battle between rival yakuza clans.
Review – Dream of the Ghost Story
Showcasing precisely synchronised mastery of various props and techniques, the Shandong Acrobatic Troupe elevates the fable to the divine.
Review – Red Sorghum
Every family has a history. A rich tapestry of heartache, joy, tragedy and triumph. Red Sorghum is one such history which juxtaposes simple beauty with senseless carnage.
