Transit, Underbelly Southbank Festival, review
Québécois circus company Flip Fabrique return to the Southbank after last year's presentation of Catch Me (Attrape Moi) with Underbelly's first main space headliner of the summer, Transit. A thrilling …
Québécois circus company Flip Fabrique return to the Southbank after last year's presentation of Catch Me (Attrape Moi) with Underbelly's first main space headliner of the summer, Transit. A thrilling …
A colourful aesthetic doesn't manage to disguise a slight lack of playfulness and cohesion in Lost in Translation's family-focused Hotel Paradiso. Stunts engage its young audience, but I'm unconvinced its …
Black Cat: Bohemia sets Underbelly's Spiegeltent alight with an impressive international line-up, an endearing and charismatic MC and plenty of real searing flames - but one too many moments feel genuinely …
An often dazzling fusion of endurance, masochism and spectacle, Backbone's let down only by occasional misjudged 'acting' sequences. I'd argue there's no need to artificially create 'risk', when Gravity and …
Forget Google, production photos or hearsay. Nothing can quite prepare you for the enormity, opulence and sheer (frequently heart-stopping) audacity of La Perle, Dubai's first permanent 'no-expense-spared' spectacle from the …
Genuinely breathless and unique stunts are on offer in Circolombia's latest self-titled and relentlessly energetic Underbelly offering. The show shares one too many of the innovations, and misfired creative decisions, …
Nikki & JD's Knot is intelligent, layered and often nothing short of exquisite - blending mesmerising acro and dance-theatre elements with humour and heart to navigate the ups and downs of …
Circus Abyssinia: Ethiopian Dreams, the first headliner at this year's Underbelly festival, is an unstoppable and almost unbelievable hour of absolute joy. Underbelly's Southbank season kicks off with a bang …
Devoid of gimmicks - and without a sequin in sight - Australian-based Circa's latest Edinburgh offering is a bold, stripped back and uncompromising display of sheer human strength and discipline. Australian …
The Children Are Stinky duo are tremendously competent hand balancers, jugglers and acrobats. But - far more importantly - they also know exactly how to make kids gasp, cheer and …
Created and performed by two founding members of the Australian feminist cabaret troupe Lady Sings It Better, Mother's Ruin: A Cabaret about Gin is an atypically informative and well-researched 60-minute cabaret piece …
The 'second album' to the company's cult sell-out, Briefs: Close Encounters is tighter and more artistically ambitious than its antecedent. Outside of the ensemble numbers though, momentum and fluidity is not …
Relentlessly silly and impossibly imaginative, Slightly Fat Features in VarietySoup is as good a family-friendly introduction to the world of cabaret and variety as they come. The aesthetic could not be …