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 …