Category: Performance
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4 stars – peace & fun Between Israelis and Palestinians there seems to stand a tall being, the ‘Giraffe of Peace’. Noam Shuster Eliassi was raised in the Oasis of Peace, a mixed space for voluntary coexistence for the two nations, and does political stand-up comedy in the name of peace.
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4 stars – aesthetic political performance A dark stage, projected childhood photos from which the performer’s profile detaches, and the most beautiful soundscape of my 2023 Fringe. Her story of migration echoes in her Tigrinya words, in her songs, in her poetic construction.
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4 stars – ensnaring (for spectators and magpies) A solo show about money, but on stage are four characters… Or four ‘instances’ of the same persona. And many questions, among which: what does inequality mean in our society?
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3 stars – wellbeing communication made fun Funny hats, music, a piano and a guitar. An invitation to take part for the aim of wellbeing.
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2 stars – interesting text, lacks direction Various episodes of racism are brought together in this fast-paced show involving a young black person born and raised in the South of the US. The characters that surround him, his parents and friends, are brought to life through the narrative: each has a story to tell.
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5 heart-wrenching magic Betún is a child who lives in the street. Like 100 million other children, in the streets he meets adult people. Unlike 100 million other children, his story is sublimated into poetry.
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2 Stars – unfinished work The concept is enthralling: bringing together music, poetry, science, activism, and video art. Sadly, many things didn’t work in this performance, which had been hyped through its presentation and advertising. The show had been announced as a great concert-performance, to be seen in the formal Teatro Astra.
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4 Stars – Dream-like, politic storytelling If you were to dress up like the most meaningful dream you dreamed in the last year, what would you wear? Sole is a cricket and Baleno a pig. In a beautifully poetic atmosphere, the tragic story of two anarchists who stood against TAV* is first evoked, then thoroughly…
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4 Stars – Holy (and unholy) s… From the beginning, scenography and props remind the spectator of the unifying traits that all humanity shares: a WC and some piles of faeces. From the start, a devil introduces a rooted satiric mode on society classes, and the weight they had in history.
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4 stars – ongoing metamorphosis A carpet extends from a shooting set. White; still, it can’t but remind of the red one Agamemnon stepped on, prepared for him by Clytemnestra, together with her deadly plans. Behind him walked Cassandra, foreseeing the fate that was going to unjustly involve her, too.
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