Thursday, August 11, 2016
Tipping Point is a perfect example of how experimentation and innovation in circus can produce surprisingly powerful moments that, when shared with the audience, can provide them with a new …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:04AMGravity & Other Myths‘ A Simple Space is just that – a small grey square, framed by an audience who are up close and friendly. The space is built, dismantled and reconstructed by an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:04AMTuesday, August 9, 2016
Knee Deep was the first show created by the artistically adventurous Casus. It premiered in 2012, since which time the raw performance has matured during a number of international tours and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:32PMBlizzard Concept’s show Opéra pour Sèche-Cheveux (or ‘Hairdryer’s Opera’) begins with a riveting succession of foam balls that seem to float magically in midair. The two French per…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:05AMSaturday, August 6, 2016
Mick Barnfather is a theatre director, actor and teacher with over 35 years of professional industry experience. Renowned for his exploratory clown workshops, Mick is well-versed in making p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:25AMTuesday, August 2, 2016
Flip FabriQue have officially been a company for four years, but the troupe of six have been friends for ten, ever since attending Quebec Circus School together. After they graduated, they w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:23AMMonday, August 1, 2016
Penarth pier has seen fashions come and go. Since it was first built in 1898, it’s watched an evolving array of leisure activities find a home in the (now restored) art deco pavilion. In Y…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:07PMThursday, June 30, 2016
It is a little known fact that, after Shakespeare, Britain’s most successful performing arts export is circus. The classical form, established in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMMonday, June 13, 2016
Entering the turreted world of tents that forms the Cirque du Soleil pop-up kingdom on the waterfront of Old Montréal, we pass under bright yellow arches of truss, adorned with the butterfl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:22AMMonday, June 6, 2016
The first show I see is Demain, cannily themed around the itinerant life of street performers. Marie-Josée Gauthier, a regular teacher at the school as well as an actress and theatre direct…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:21PMWednesday, June 1, 2016
The yellow and red striped tent of UniverSoul Circus aptly signals the gaiety it houses inside. This is circus reinvented as one big party, with a communal spirit at its heart. A jaunty logo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:22AMFriday, May 6, 2016
The 11th season from family owned and operated Circus Mondao is a welcome reminder that the best shows don’t always come from the biggest operators. Away from the big city, their tents are…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:36PMSmoke & Mirrors, the show that jointly won last year’s Jackson’s Lane Total Theatre award for circus at Edinburgh Festival Fringe (with B-Orders) is back in the UK for a short tour …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:45PMMonday, May 2, 2016
A pristine white tent in the carpark of the football stadium marks the temporary pitch of Continental Circus Berlin in Cardiff. A spacious foyer tent is edged with stands selling burgers, ca…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:25AMThursday, April 28, 2016
If we pay attention to the writings hung around the bare brick walls of the Roundhouse’s Dorfman Hub, where the opening installation of new multi-platform concept Me, Mother is underway, w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:19AMMonday, April 18, 2016
The Finnish double-bill of Pinta and WireDo began with the stronger of the two pieces, WireDo, from tightwire artist Hanna Moisala. Both shows are presented as part of SIRKUS – a showcase …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:12PMTuesday, April 12, 2016
The Insect Circus is a delightful wonderland of incredible mini-beasts, grown to human proportions and trained for our viewing pleasure by a multi-talented troupe of performers, headed up by…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:08PMSaturday, April 9, 2016
The new triple bill of work directed by Samuel Tétreault, one of the eponymous co-founders of 7 Fingers (7 Doigts…), is a programme of collaborations with three world-class dance choreogr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:45PMThursday, March 31, 2016
Circus and books are two of my favourite things, so the chance to see them combined in the new production from Bikes & Rabbits, touring under the CryingOutLoud production banner, was to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:45AMSaturday, March 19, 2016
This luminous production of Philip Glass‘ 1983 opera Akhnaten bathes the senses in rich sonic and visual colour that sears the tantalising character of the titular Egyptian pharaoh – and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:34PMSaturday, February 13, 2016
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff; 10th February 2016 This stunning production of Shakespeare’s three Henry VI plays, merged into one rich adaptation, brings the terror of civ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:39PMTuesday, February 9, 2016
Barbican Theatre, London International Mime Festival; 6th February 2016 As the curtain rises for He Who Falls (Celui Qui Tombe when not anglicised for this festival), a wooden platform&…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:58PMSunday, February 7, 2016
Amaluna is a fantasy storybook whisked into life with twinkling lights, colourful costumes, a sea of acrobatic performers, and a rousing rock band. It’s not the story of The Tempest, but S…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:13PMSaturday, February 6, 2016
All Genius All Idiot is the youngest of the shows at this year’s Mime Festival, and Svalbard‘s springlike greenery sometimes yields vibrant novelty with an exciting energy, while at othe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:19AMFriday, February 5, 2016
‘Bringing Friends Together…’ reads the tagline across the brightly coloured cover of this weekend’s programme of events and, for many, the Circus Reunion is the only opportunity in e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:50PMFriday, January 29, 2016
Australian company Circa arrive back on UK shores with a wash of scenes that paint a tense journey of migrancy, and the pressures that can bring to human relationships. The six acrobats (Nat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:06PMSaturday, January 23, 2016
Expiry Date, from Belgian company BabaFish, is a moving last dance inside the mind of a man in his final moments. We know what’s coming, but not how it will transpire. Memories jumble in a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:52AMThursday, January 14, 2016
Every year, theatre company Improbable hold a national Open Space event called Devoted & Disgruntled for those working in the UK theatre sector. The worlds of circus and theatre are ove…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:34AMSunday, January 3, 2016
My first circus of 2016 has been a roller coaster – some highs, some lows, some coasting and most certainly a whole load of thrills. Presented by the Planet Circus team (who also brought …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:11AMTuesday, December 1, 2015
Exploring the evolution, trends and focus of various forms of circus training, the assignment asked us to either analyse our own training experience, envisage an ‘ideal’ circus education…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:46AMSunday, November 8, 2015
No Man’s Land is all about borders and boundaries, and what happens when you cross them. It starts with the audience being ushered, military style, into the space and commanded to turn off…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:20PM 
