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Writer/Director: Robert Lepage Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Totem – Robert Le Page’s second production for the worlds biggest circus outfit Cirque du Soliel, returns for another month long residency following last years sell out season. As with all Cirque du Soliel productions, Totem has a loose frame work or story in which all its acts [...]

Writer: Justin Butcher Music: Daniel Greensmith Director: Emel Yilmaz Reviewer: Jacqui Onions The Public Reviews Rating:   SanaRt Theatre’s brave production of one man play, Scaramouche Jones, is a hidden gem in the small theatre space above the Alma Tavern. A juggler warms up the audience as they wait to enter the auditorium with a fire club display, [...]

Director: Zhang Wan Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: Producer Stephen Leatherland was inspired to create Cirque Du Ciel after seeing Cirque Du Soleil in London and Las Vegas. The re-imagining of traditional circus forms combining acrobatics, modern dance, martial arts and other Chinese elements, has been a feature of recent years, proving that there is still [...]

Adaptation: Jake Linzey Reviewer: Alice Longhurst The Public Reviews Rating: Graceful aerial acrobatics and powerful physical storytelling mark out this production from the proliferation of Shakespeare performances presented at the Fringe. Backhand Theatre skilfully weaves the tale all around its audience, employing climbing frames situated behind and between the seating areas, and soaring overhead on ropes and trapezes. [...]

Director: Felicity Simpson Reviewer: Val Baskott The Public Reviews Rating: Circolombia are graduates from the Circo Para Todos (Circus for All) School in Cali, Colombia. Just like the music schools in Venezuela and dance academies in Cuba this circus school provides a way out of gang life in the urban barrios. It offers gifted young people a general [...]

Created by: Jean-Baptiste Thiérré and Victoria Chaplin Reviewer: Natalie Barker The Public Reviews Rating: There seems to be a renewed interest in circus performance – now a legitimate artistic endeavour and a far cry from the tawdry big tops of our childhoods. Having attended numerous shows of this particular brand of performance art since the memorable circus [...]

Creators/Directors: Zimmerman and de Perrot Reviewer:  Laurie Stras The Public Reviews Rating: Chouf Ouchouf, which means, “look, but take a really good look,” is an hour of offbeat dance, comedy, singing, soundscapes, beauty and extraordinary thrilling physical theatre performed by the ten men and two women of the Groupe Acrobatique de Tanger. A simple but flexible set built [...]

Writer : Matt Pang, Revital Gottshalk Reviewer: Laura Stimpson The Public Reviews Rating: Having been promised a unique mix of wacky audience participation, silent physical comedy, physical theatre, clowning, mask and contemporary circus I was quite intrigued by what I would find when going to see Full Twist by Pangottic. From the beginning of the performance the audience [...]