Siri by La Messe Basse is a one-woman show that isn’t a one woman show. Canadian actress Laurence Dauphinais is assisted by Siri, in the default female voice (for Canadian English, in Scotland the male voice is default).
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Arm – Mireille and Mathieu
Mireille and Mathieu bill themselves as puppeteers – but what they do is closer to two large, enthusiastic kids playing with action figures than it is to any puppetry you may have seen before. No traditional puppets are used in Arm – the duo instead favour a plethora of kids’ toys and flea-market objects. It seems as…
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Escape For Dummies
“Store closing in fifteen minutes. All security to level one.” A standard shop floor…except the mannequins come alive.
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Whalebone
Whalebone begins with a simple visual metaphor: a bright red folding umbrella is tightly secured round its middle by a Velcro strip. It pushes against the fastening, but ultimately is constrained. It’s a simple yet striking motif that will underpin the rest of the play – a play about bodies, and the space that they…
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Boris and Sergey’s One Man Extravaganza
Boris and Sergey are one of the top comedy double acts of the festival. They’re a classic combination: Sergey the older, smarter, scheming brother; Boris the younger, hot-headed, and eager one.
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1 Woman, a High Flyer, and a Flat Bottom: Samantha Baines
It’s a rare sight at the fringe: a stand-up set with a genuine and serious slant. Baines wants to shine a light on three lost women of science. Or at least two lost women of science and Sally Ride, whose portrait I recognised even with the word LOST hung over her entire face; she is…
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Dunkirk and the Art of War: Christopher Nolan’s Oppressive Aesthetic
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk has won universal critical acclaim for its attempt to authentically reproduce the evacuation of soldiers from Dunkirk. Nolan’s movie has been hailed as the artistic zenith of the war film; a masterclass in temporal and spatial elasticity, weaving together a triplet of narratives told across one week, one day, and one hour,…
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The Starship Osiris
Captain Harrison is the universe’s greatest pilot and its bravest, most handsome captain. He’s on a mission to confront his nemesis, drink space-champagne, and sing ballads about his dead wife – and nothing’s going to stop him.
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Breakup (We Need to Talk)
There’s no easy way to do this… five performers, five hours of excitement, desperation, negotiation and devastation. Come and go as you please, or stay for the whole duration.
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25th Raindance Programme Launch
Raindance Film Festival is back for its 25th Annual Festival, and it seems the festival is going from strength to strength in its silver jubilee, with a fantastic programme launch earlier today.
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