Fringe
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31 August 2009
Posted in
Music
Acoustic Music Centre
August 29th , 18:30
With more than a hint of the epic bard’s tales about them, Cheyenne Brown and Seylan Baxter arrived at the Acoustic Music Centre. Using Cello and Harp to full effect, the sounds produced evoke images of Hobbits trudging across snowy mountains, Ivanhoe setting off on crusade, and your reviewer battling rain and wind whilst trying to find the Fringe outpost that is the Acoustic Music Centre.
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30 August 2009
Posted in
Dance
The Arches @ St Stephen’s
9-31 August, 19.30
That women from the audience felt empowered and secure enough to shed their clothes, stand shoulder to shoulder with the nude cast, clothed members of the audience and join in a gutsy, bellowing rendition of Jerusalem in the show’s finale, is a feat that I have never before witnessed, and testament to the radiance and fortitude of Nic Green’s ‘Trilogy’.
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30 August 2009
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Dance
Pleasance Courtyard
7-31 August (ex.17, 24) 14.30
First Class is one of those productions that it is very difficult to review. Imagine, if you will, Alice’s best-friend leaning in and asking, “So, Alice dear, how would you describe Wonderland?” She’d probably reply, “It’s blinking barmy, Emily dear!” and so is this wonderful, daft, warm-hearted show from Lecoq-trained “Half Wit” theatre.
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30 August 2009
Posted in
Theatre
Zoo @ 140 The Pleasance
24-29 August, 20.25
An examination of masochistic, co-dependent lesbian relationship, inspired by ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ and ‘Lassie Come Home’. What?!
Wide-eyed pioneers turned settlers. The hopes and dreams that founded a nation. A model of the Empire State Building; each window the gate to a story, a dream.
I really feel that I saw this show in an unfair light. I did not particularly enjoy it but the cast were almost crippled by the absence of children within the audience. Thus I must commend the three main characters for maintaining their bounce as they were smiley, energetic and noisy throughout the play.
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