Sunday, 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 01:20PMSunday, November 1, 2015
It’s no wonder that we females may seem a little crazy at times when, as shown by the three ladies of Norwegian company Tanter, the identity of 21st century womanhood is framed by the prec…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:04PMFriday, October 30, 2015
The Lords Of Strut have hit Bristol in all their lycra legginged, high-top and headband wearing glory, on a mission to change people’s lives through the power of dance. And through deep, b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:22PMOutside it’s damp, and dark by 5pm, making the coloured lights and vibrant temptations inside the Gandey’s tent even more enticing. This is a traditional show (sans animals, as is the cu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:18PMWednesday, October 28, 2015
The half-term holidays signal the return of John Lawson’s Circus to the West Hagley garden centre and, this year, I’m off work so I get to visit. I am expecting a show for children with …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:29AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
Ziggy Slingsby has created an intriguing proposition with the trilogy of Original, Raw and Encounter – three versions of her Two-Legged Animal show – which each offer a different way to …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:59PMSaturday, October 24, 2015
Earlier this week, I attended an Open Space discussion forum for the UK circus industry and heard a voice advocating that people making work should also be seeing work, as this broadening of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:15PMFriday, October 23, 2015
Game is the first creation of Bristol-based Unstable King, a trio of performers who share a love of multiplayer online gaming as well as circus backgrounds. It is the gaming element that dri…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:05PMTuesday, October 20, 2015
The second week of Bristol’s Circus City Festival has been characterised by lots of opportunities to get together and talk over pressing issues in the sector in a facilitated manner. The …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:51AMSaturday, October 17, 2015
The studio stage of the little Wickham Theatre has been transformed into an intimate ring marked with soft clay, not sawdust. For an engrossing hour that feels set out of time, Nathan Israë…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:48PMWednesday, October 14, 2015
For several months I’ve been talking with the producers of Bristol’s second biennial circus festival (now Circus City, evolved from Creative Common) about the possibility of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, October 12, 2015
Circomedia, Circus City Festival, Bristol; 10th October 2015 This is the 99th time the trio of men who call themselves Sisters have performed Clockwork, and the way they move …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:28PMFriday, October 2, 2015
For the last 18 months or so I’ve found myself singing the same song whenever anyone asks how things are going. Good, but that I need to stop allowing this unpaid circus writing work t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:24PMThis year the annual Out There Festival of circus and street arts in Great Yarmouth was opened for a second time with a two day conference for artists, producers, programmers and f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:02PMFriday, September 4, 2015
Last weekend the Edinburgh Festival Fringe wrapped up another August of performing arts, having taken over the Scottish capital every summer for almost 70 years. The Fringe growth means that…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:50PMThursday, August 20, 2015
Big Sexy Circus City, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 14th August 2015 Wings In My Heart is an extraordinary work of circus innovation developed by the husband and wife team Rigolo: Lena Roth and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:34PMTuesday, August 18, 2015
Underbelly Circus Hub, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 12th August 2015 B-Orders, from the Palestinian Circus Company in association with Aurora Nova, can legitimately reclaim the term ̵…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:10PMUnderbelly Circus Hub, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 12th August 2015 The Hogwallops is the first touring production from Jackson’s Lane, presented by Lost In Translation Circus, a c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:06AMUnderbelly Circus Hub, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 11th August 2015 The trademark beards of Cirque Alfonse are back in a new show that seems a world away from the lumberjack theme of previous…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:19AMFriday, August 14, 2015
Just Festival at Central Hall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 11th August 2015 Characters loosely derived from Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland are the hosts of this jumbled collection of theatr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:41PMUnderbelly Circus Hub, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 11th August 2015 International company Cirque Le Roux have produced the most complete fusion of narrative theatre and top flight c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:35AMThursday, August 13, 2015
Underbelly Circus Hub, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 11th August 2015 Darkly disturbing, the brand new show from Cirk La Putyka, Dolls, premieres in Edinburgh and brings a theatrical …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:58PMUnderbelly George Square, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 10th August 2015 The Close Up perspective we get in Circa‘s latest World Premiere is not, as might be expected, from any …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:52AMIt’s the best word I know to describe a stylistic trend I see cropping up with increasing regularity in circus and related skill based performance. Someone give Oxford English a call&#…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:25AMWednesday, August 12, 2015
Assembly Hall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 9th August 2015 Even without the projected dictionary definitions that start the show, it’s understood that the 360 of the title is all a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:02PMTuesday, August 11, 2015
Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 11th August 2015 Hands covered in chalk dust, I wander away from the aptly named Demonstration Room, feeling like I should have touched that trapeze. S…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:16PM Big Sexy Circus City, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 8th August 2015 One of two dedicated venues for circus work this year at Edinburgh Fringe (the other being the teething problem-fraught…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:23AMMonday, August 10, 2015
Assembly George Square Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 8th August 2015 If circus is about taking physical human skills and presenting them in surprising and entertaining ways, then …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:43PMSunday, August 9, 2015
Assembly Hall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 7th August 2015 Traces is – in the UK at least – the 7 Fingers’ signature show since the finale sequence of Chinese…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:28PMInstitut Français d’Ecosse, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 9th August 2015 The creaking of the tent gives way to liquid dripping and footsteps, mingling with the sounds of traffic out…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:15PMSaturday, August 8, 2015
Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 8th August 2015 Something is a comic flickbook of everyday fantasy, presented by Italian company Liberi-Di. The seven performers each have a natura…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:40PM 
