Category: Performance
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4 stars – energetic downfall Charly is fine. She loves her job and she’s good at doing it. She wakes up late and waits for her customers’ calls. A power cut makes her day different from all the others. But she is fine.
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4 stars – breathtaking acrobatics Two acrobats, and the difficulties of collaborating. A female and a male body: there is a chance that she can also have him climb on her and she can carry his weight. So, they try this chance.
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5 stars – the cleverest parody on stereotypes and racism Who wants to become a LatinX? Between castings, the character Manuel lectures the audience through an exhilarating workshop that plays with stereotypes and prejudices on people from Latin America.
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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.
