Category: Performance
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⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extraordinary, tragicomic simplicity Three generations of women under one roof and the passing of time. In this picture, a middle-aged woman with a great sense of independence finds herself carrying the emotional load of the roles of daughter and mother in the same closed space… until life evolves to a critical stage, where the…
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⭐⭐⭐ – hot, messy and all over the place. Georgia Polly-Taylor’s one woman show Very Hot. Very Messy is, best described by her own words, a ‘comedic carnage spectacle’. It’s so full of props, gags, pop culture references, and – last but not least – a glittery toilet wrapped in purple boa, it’s enough to…
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – A genius tale of toxic masculinity. No Hard Felix is a one-man show by Northern Ireland-born actor Mark Ryder who takes us for a hilariously silly yet vulnerable ride with his alter ego, Felix. Felix, a man in finance, trust fund, (almost) 6ft 5, blue eyes, is the type of guy we all…
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⭐⭐⭐⭐ Powerful and intimidating performance. Laura is not yet 24, she still owns a huge teddy bear, and she gets paid for sexual services. This makes her a sex worker. Right? A whore, like someone calls her… On a stage populated by microphones, Laura tells her story in a scattered and violently poetical way.
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⭐⭐⭐⭐ A hilarious lowdown of creepy screenshots. One of the hottest Fringe shows this year – a fully sold out run with newly added dates gone before you blink twice – is a one-woman piece by Harriet Richardson, a multidisciplinary performance artist, who opens by humbly admitting she’s not a comedian nor an actress and…
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3 stars – Almost Camp. Bloody Ballad of Bette Davis by the Brooklyn-based company Piper Theatre Productions is a musical theatre piece built around the curiously bizarre premise that Bette Davis, the undying Hollywood legend, may or may not have been a witch.
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4 stars – Chaotic good character comedy. Jonathan Oldfield’s Exquisite Corpse is a jam-packed, late-night underground character comedy show (the time and venue do work in its favour) that technically runs for an hour but feels like 20 minutes.
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5 stars – powerfully unsettling Sheol is the name of the afterworld in ancient Hebrew traditions. According to different textual sources, it has either positive connotations to it, or negative, or neither. A soprano and three musicians are the characters of this performance created by the Grotowski Institute and Katowice Miasto Ogrodów.
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4 stars – miscellaneous drag documentary Half drag show, half documentary, this performance presents the work of Messy Friends. They are a group created by Ginava with an innovative idea of drag, where dance, lip-sync, burlesque and classical drag makeup are juxtaposed to puppet-like costumes.
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5 stars – towards human and beyond A character is there, sat on a chair, who resembles a man in a suit. He is looking back, aware of being looked at, and this awareness shapes his movement, as he piles and drops and bites and rolls and piles and drops.
